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    Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold...
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    Sears, Roebuck and Co. (/sɪərz/ SEERZ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and...
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    1973 Pacific Ready Cut Homes, Los Angeles – 1908 to 1940 Sears Modern Homes, Sears, Roebuck, Chicago – 1908 to 1940 Sterling Homes, International Mill and...
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    Longfellow (neighborhood), Minneapolis (category Sears Modern Homes)
    population. More expensive homes are located closer to the river, and almost all of the housing stock is composed of Sears Modern Homes in the Bungalow style...
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    Charming Home of Many Gables". Sears Modern Homes. February 21, 2013. Retrieved October 23, 2014. Hunter, Rebecca (2004). Putting Sears Homes on the Map:...
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    Camp House (Aplin, Arkansas) (category Sears Modern Homes)
    also likely that the house was built from a kit Mr. Camp purchased from Sears, Roebuck. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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    Chester Valentine House (category Sears Modern Homes)
    House, also known as Strathmore Cottage, is a historic Strathmore model Sears kit house located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built...
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    Altona (West Virginia) (category Sears Modern Homes)
    section is a large loafing shed. The Sears house to the west of the main house is an American Foursquare, listed in the Sears catalog as "Dream House." The two-story...
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    Sachs-Webster House (category Sears Modern Homes)
    in Laveen, Arizona. On the farmstead is a turn-of-the-20th-Century Sears Catalog Home built by "the original settlers of the community of Laveen". Historic...
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  • Ravina (Lordville, New York) (category Sears Modern Homes)
    residence is a three-by-three-bay, 2-story wood-frame building listed in the Sears catalog of prefabricated houses as "Shadow Lawn." It and the bungalow were...
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    Pete Larsen Farm (category Sears Modern Homes)
    spent little time at the farm, traveling home on weekends. He was more prosperous than many. He purchased a Sears catalogue house and contracted help during...
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  • Watkins Family Farm Historic District (category Sears Modern Homes)
    Prairie School style frame dwelling built from the Sears and Roebuck Company prefabricated kit for Sears House Plan #227, "The Castleton." It was listed...
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  • in the 1830s. Applied to single-family homes, it gave rise to many kit homes, such as the Sears Modern Homes imagined by the eponymous company in 1908...
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    Tolleth House (category Sears Modern Homes)
    was a Sears Catalog Home constructed from mail order plans sold by Sears, Roebuck and Company in their 1905 catalog. Sears included catalog homes beginning...
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  • referred to as "New Sears") is an American privately held company formed on February 11, 2019, to acquire some of the assets of Sears Holdings Corporation...
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    unique aspects of the district are 10 models of kit houses from the Sears Modern Homes catalog. Single Dwelling Secondary Structure Camp Business Clubhouse...
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    Smith House (Searcy, Arkansas) (category Sears Modern Homes)
    prefabricated mail order house, produced by the Sears, Roebuck company as model #264P202 of the Sears Modern Homes. It is a two-story frame structure, with a...
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    Farmhouse (redirect from Farm home)
    Retrieved 3 August 2015. "What is a Sears Modern Home?". Sears. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2015. "Kit Home Information". The Arts & Crafts Society...
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    Sears Canada Inc. was a publicly-traded Canadian company affiliated with the American-based Sears department store chain. In operation from 1952 until...
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  • Family". Wilmette Historical Museum. Retrieved April 17, 2024. "Sears Verona". Sears Modern Homes. Retrieved April 17, 2024. Grayslake Fire District. Village...
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    Evan F. Ellis Farmhouse (category Sears Modern Homes)
    bought in Marion County, Iowa in 1909. He built this Sears, Roebuck & Co. "Honor Bilt Modern Homes" pre-cut house in 1913. It was unusual for such a house...
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    has 22 houses known to have been built with mail-order kits sold by Sears Modern Homes. There is one building in Blue Island listed on the National Register...
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    Mail order (section Sears)
    1950), p.90. Book: Historic Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog Plant ISBN 0-7385-3977-5, opening date. "What is a Sears Modern Home?". Archived from the original...
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    the early 1900s, proximity to the railroad lines added many Sears Modern Homes ("kit homes"), and other similar manufacturers, that shipped the building...
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    the United States, several companies, including Sears Catalog Homes, began offering mail-order kit homes between 1902 and 1910. The Forest Products Laboratory...
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  • Heather Christine Sears (28 September 1935 – 3 January 1994) was a British stage and screen actress. Sears was the daughter of distinguished London doctor...
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  • Retrieved March 15, 2014. Homes, Sears (August 13, 2012). "In Memoriam: BGSU Popular Culture House". Sears Modern Homes. Retrieved March 15, 2014. "Supporters...
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    the catalogue's failures, pointing to the similar Simpsons-Sears catalogue (later the Sears Canada catalogue), which continued until a much later date...
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  • flickr. Retrieved 21 November 2015. "Houses by George (Barber)". Sears Modern Homes. Retrieved 18 December 2014. McClure, Paul (15 August 2010). "Queen...
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    Sears Roebuck & Company Department Store is a landmarked former department store in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The Sears Roebuck...
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