What’s old is new again, real estate agents are discovering as buyers lay down millions in order to own vintage houses known as kit homes. Before these homes became sought-after relics, they ...

When she started her search for a house, Amy Balicki didn’t set out to buy a Sears kit home in Downers Grove ... featured a sketch of the house, a floor plan, and a basic cost that ranged ...

Now that Sears ... kit home is a uniquely personal story,” Thornton said. “Somebody sat down and pored through a catalog to find the one they liked.” Buyers could choose the floor plans ...

As Sears stores close around the country, the longtime retailer’s legacy may be a catalog item it stopped selling in the 1940s: home kits. Estimates from the Sears Archives website suggest the ...

From the early 1900s until 1942, Sears ... floor plans customizable and prices from around $100. While the Hoffman Estates-based retailer filed for bankruptcy in October, many of its iconic kit ...

With his railroading profession, it made sense for the Donovans to order a Sears kit home ... width of the home, and an entry that opens directly to the living room. This floor plan also includes ...

Sears closed its last big-box store in Charleston this year, but the retail giant's legacy lives on in a handful of catalog-ordered "kit homes" scattered across the Uptown. The Sears, Roebuck and ...

Although not as well known as kits produced by such companies as Sears ... innovative floor plans and classic American designs. Martin Biniasz, owner of a 1922 Bennett home in South Buffalo ...

Sears is the best known company today to have offered kit homes. It issued its first specialty catalog, Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans, in 1908 ... Updates include a larger bathroom on the ...

Between 1908 and 1942, Sears sold some 70,000 customizable home kits across the country through the company’s Modern Home catalog, according to the Chicago Architectural Center. Kit-related catalog ...