Bungalow Sears House Plans 1930s Sears has opened the doors to its vast archival collection and invited the public to peek inside More than 100 years of stories product and brand histories photographs catalog images and more are now available online
From 1908 until 1940 Sears Roebuck and Co sold over 70 000 kit houses through their Modern Homes and Honor Bilt catalogs Designs for 370 different plans ranged from the elaborate to the simple the Goldenrod for example was a three room vacation cottage no bath out house separate A version of the same house from the 1927 Sears The Harris Dictionary describes bungalow siding as clapboarding having a minimal width of 8 in 20 cm Wide siding or shingles is characteristic of these small homes Other features often found on bungalows built in America between 1905 and 1930 include One and a half stories so dormers are common
Bungalow Sears House Plans 1930s
Bungalow Sears House Plans 1930s
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1936 Sears Roebuck Modern Homes Craftsman style bungalows so popular during the Teens had almost completely vanished from the catalog books by the 1930s They were replaced by more modern styles with cleaner lines and less ornamentation The Collingwood was a popular example of the streamlined exterior with enough traditional flavor to look Sears s reputation for quality low prices and reliability carefully nurtured since the company s founding in 1886 was like money in the bank for its customers The company s first 44 page Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans issued in 1908 brought an immediate and enthusiastic response
The Sears Bungalow There were only a few bungalow style designs among the more 447 different house styles that SEARS and ROEBUCK marketed in its catalog of house plans between 1908 and 1940 Arts and Crafts residential architecture was in its heyday at the time and bungalow homes epitomized the lifestyle and d cor that was popularized in the Check out these historic plans for 1950s era Cape Cod houses 1950s era Ranch houses Minimal Traditional houses from the 1940s and 1950s and NeoColonial houses from the 1950s and 1960s Small homes and bungalow house plans were marketed in mail order catalogs and magazines since 1908 See historic house plans and advertisements
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The Ellison More Sears Roebuck Homes from the 1930 s Explore Recent Photos Trending Daily Bungalow By Daily Bungalow Homes of Today Sears Kit Houses 1932 The Ellison More Sears Roebuck Homes from the 1930 s Explore Recent Photos Trending Events The Commons Flickr Galleries World Map Camera Finder Flickr Blog Prints The Sears kit house from the 1930 Catalog See more 1930s Sears Homes Daily Bungalow Sears Modern Home The Bellewood See more 1930s Sears Homes Explore Recent Photos Trending Events The Commons Flickr Galleries World Map Camera Finder Flickr Blog Prints The Print Shop
I have a one floor plan bungalow that has been listed as significant to the history of my area I am curious as to the name of the house The Sears house that is in our family was built in 1936 by my father and is still owned by the family It was first used as a summer home By 1930 Sears had 350 employees working with homeowners in The Sears Crafton was possibly Sears best selling kit home It was offered for more than two decades in the Sears Modern Homes catalogs and remained popular even during the Great Depression It was a very modest 600 800 square foot frame home offered in four different floor plans A C D or X The price of The Crafton in the 1933 catalog
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http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/1927-1932.htm
Sears has opened the doors to its vast archival collection and invited the public to peek inside More than 100 years of stories product and brand histories photographs catalog images and more are now available online
https://www.oldhouseonline.com/house-tours/kit-houses/
From 1908 until 1940 Sears Roebuck and Co sold over 70 000 kit houses through their Modern Homes and Honor Bilt catalogs Designs for 370 different plans ranged from the elaborate to the simple the Goldenrod for example was a three room vacation cottage no bath out house separate A version of the same house from the 1927 Sears
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Bungalow Sears House Plans 1930s - 500 Small House Plans from The Books of a Thousand Homes American Homes Beautiful by C L Bowes 1921 Chicago Radford s Blue Ribbon Homes 1924 Chicago Representative California Homes by E W Stillwell c 1918 Los Angeles About AHS Plans One of the most entertaining aspects of old houses is their character Each seems to have its own
