Basically,  a phone nook is a rectangular area recessed into the wall with a phone jack where a landline phone would hang and ...

Tiny buildings called accessory dwelling units (ADU) are popping up in backyards across the nation as space for in-laws, ...

Kit houses are everywhere. Found in neighborhoods throughout the Lansing area, most are nearly a century old and still standing the test of time.

Just how many kit homes there are locally is unclear ... had no idea their house was a catalog-order Sears, Roebuck and Company home when they bought it. Schrott and McWilliams were living ...

Mail-order homes, also called kit houses, were all the rage in the early 1900s as people moved West. In Wyoming, Aladdin kit homes were more popular than Sears & Roebuck homes like this one in ...

Kit homes, once a staple of American homeownership, represent a fascinating chapter in real estate history. In the early 20th century, companies like Sears, Roebuck & Co. revolutionized home ...

Factory-built homes today share a similar legacy with the iconic Sears Roebuck kit homes but leverage modern technology for greater efficiency, quality, and customization. Unlike the early 20th ...

“This concept is really quite old,” he notes. “Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold kit homes from its catalog in the early 1900s.” Before you hit “buy now” on an Amazon house, it’s crucial ...

Amazon is not the first major retailer to sell manufactured homes. More than 100 years ago, American retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co began selling kit homes from its catalog, with some for under ...

From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.