An invaluable tool for achieving high performance houses—both new and retrofit—is performance testing. Several sets of tests were run during the construction and then after the completion of the house, including overall air leakage (aka blower door), duct system leakage (D...
A Sears Roebuck kit house included blueprints and almost all the materials a customer needed to construct the house. The biggest part of the order (and the largest expense) was the lumber because the houses were almost always of frame construction. However, in the early years of the Sears Mo...
Byline: Mark Billings Daily Herald Correspondent Hamilton Avenue on Elgin's near-west side...Billings, Mark
Correction: This entry previously stated that this home was a Sears Roebuck catalog house with the windows installed upside-down. That is an incorrect, though oft-repeated local tale. In fact, the house is a Victorian-era design and the windows are installed correctly. Related Tags Houses Arc...
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In 1908, Sears left the company. This was the same year that Sears Roebuck began selling houses. The first Modern Homes catalog was kind of a snoozer. I doubt Richard Sears would have approved this. The cover of the 1908 Modern Homes catalog. In true Sears style, the first page of the...
The new plan of home building has been in operation only a few months, but both companies have found it exceedingly popular. Before its adoption, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold about 3,000 houses a year; since the new system of finance and construction went into effect, this total has been...
For decades, Sears was king of the American shopping landscape. Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s iconic catalog featured items from bicycles to sewing machines to houses, and could generate excitement throughout a household when it arrived. The company began opening retail locations in 1925 and expanded...
, who studies furniture history at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, it’s possible that a family working in 1900 bought some pieces of mass-produced furniture, like that sold by Sears Roebuck & Co. Page from a Sears catalog c. 1900. The truth is more difficult, ...
“When Sears, Roebuck and Company built its Santa Monica department store in 1947, it did so at an interesting time for commercial development,” noted awrite-upby the Conservancy. “Shopping areas were starting to shift away from pedestrian-oriented storefronts with de...