On Abe Lincoln's blog he has an article and picture of a Sears Kit House in his town. This house is in Bay View on Whidbey Island, Washington.
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Sears Catalog Homes (sold as Sears Modern Homes) were ready-to-assemble houses sold through mail order by Sears Roebuck and Company, an American retailer. Over 70,000+ of these were sold in North America between 1908 and 1940. Shipped via railroad boxcars, these kits included all the materials needed to build an exceptionally sturdy and well designed house. Many were assembled by the new homeowner and friends, relatives, and neighbors, in a fashion similar to the traditional barn-raisings of farming families.
Wow, and they last this long? Fantastic, for a mail-order house! Pretty too — I wouldn't mind having a patio like that, especially with all those lovely trees surrounding the house!
What a great idea!
Today, prefabricated houses are very common here in Europe, but I think the firms put them together, not the owners. I just read on the homepage of the Austrian professional Union of prefabricated housebuilders that in Germany and Austria, prefabricated houses boomed after the second world war, and today, every third house in Austria is prefabricated.
And: the first prefabricated houses were designed by Leonardo da Vinci 1516 for towns to be built along the river Loire in France, but the idea goes back to half-timbered buildings of the 12th century. Then the American settlers worked with this technique.
http://www.fertighaus.org/index.php?cid=63
WOW, I'm really educated now ;) thanks to your blog, MB!
Are the original Sears houses still used in the USA?
I am sure that my translation of "Österreichischer Fertighausverband" is rather funny... sorry...
Until I read Abraham's blog I had never heard of the houses ordered through the Sears Catalog. Fascinating...and haven't times changed?
We are told our house is a Sears Craftsman home. I havent found one that looks like it anywhere though.
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I grew up near several Sears kit homes and there is one here in Sitka too. I wonder how many of the 70,000 are still standing.
I would love to have one of these!
With lots of trees and grass around it!
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What a pretty little house - I love the porch! I have always been fascinated by the Sears homes, there are a few around here as well.
This is interesting indeed, ready-to-assemble houses. What fun it must have been then.
It looks in very good shape nearly a century later.
I think this one is really charming with the porch. That would be a fun thing to reserch. Sears Homes. I had heard of them but had not seen one to my knowledge until Abe posted the one around his town. Peace
Another educational post!! Thank you.
Can't believe I've never heard of this - for a prefab house they sure must have been well-made to last so long unlike nowadays. That's what's neat about the Internet - you learn something all the time.
Hey, I didn't know that. We pass it every time we go from Sunlight Beach to Langley. We'll be there this weekend. I'll be sure to notice.
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