ESTANCIA, N.M. — A house built from a Sears catalog kit in the 1920s that has been abandoned for the last 20 years is becoming a popular photo stop. "It's kind of a ghost house," resident Michelle ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mary Cirelli's house was built more than a century ago from a kit ordered from a Sears catalog. The Magnolia was one of the most ...

The world may say goodbye to Sears, but the company's assemble-it-yourself homes will live on. Kit houses were available in Sears’ catalog books from 1908 to 1940. Shoppers could flip through the ...

If you think houses built from kits during the early 20th century were shoddy and cheap, think again. “These homes were solid and have stood the test of time,” said author and historian Rosemary ...

ESTANCIA, N.M. (CBS Local)-- An abandoned house in a small town southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico, attracts people from across the region. Many think it's haunted. "If you drive by, sometimes you ...

Sears’s history is the history of U.S. consumerism, its catalog the picture book of an expanding 19th- and 20th-century America. Depending on the decade, consumers could order lumber, nails and paint, ...

ESTANCIA, N.M. — A house built from a Sears catalog kit in the 1920s that has been abandoned for the last 20 years is becoming a popular photo stop. "It's kind of a ghost house," resident Michelle ...

Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. Minnie Kendall’s Roseville house was said to ...