Talk:Sears Modern Homes

message: Sears Catalog Homeswere ready-to-assemble houses which were sold by mail order by Sears Roebuck and Company. Families could open a catalog, select and visualize their new home, dream, save, and then purchase it. Sears offered mortgage financing, assembly instructions, and guarantees. Shipped via railroad boxcars, many were assembled by the new homeowners and a few friends, relatives, and neighbors, in a fashion similar to traditional barn raisings. Over 100,000 of 447 different models to suit tastes and budgets were sold from 1908-1940.
:I'd go with either a shortened version of boxcar, or a shortened version of 100k. Something like:
**...that Sears Catalog Homes were shipped via railroad boxcars and assembled in a fashion similar to traditional barn raisings?
**...that from 1908 to 1940, over 100,000 of the 447 different models for Sears Catalog Homes were sold in the United States?
: BRIAN0918  17:55, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Highlights for Did You Know?

message: I'm thinking this article should be moved, unless "Sears Catalog Homes" was the actual name of the division, in which case that should be clarified in the lead section.  If not, the article should definitely be moved to a singular (eg "home"), possibly lowercasing Catalog and Home, and replacing "home" with "house".... Maybe it would be easiest to simply move the article to "Sears Modern Homes", which, according to the article, is what they were sold as (although you might still replace Homes with home/house, and Sears with Sears, Roebuck)  -- BRIAN0918  17:55, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good.  I'll submit the 2nd one to DYK. -- BRIAN0918  20:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Renaming

message: The figures are from the calculator at: 
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
which is largely based on the Consumer Price Index. There are other ways of measuring inflation however and maybe this is not the best for houses? It's better than nothing for now at least. I rounded to the nearest 100.
Espermike 07:32, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Inflation adjusted prices

message: It would be great if someone could take a picture of a still standing SCH for this article... --Jfruh (talk) 19:47, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo? 

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thread_title:  GA Re-Review and In-line citations 

message: This article is currently at Good Article Review. Teemu08 00:37, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good article review 

message: Does anyone know where original blueprints for these homes can be found? Is there an archive somewhere on the Internet that could be included in the external links section?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.204.204.89 (talk) 14:43, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Blueprints

message: Wikipedia editors deleted the Wiki page that documented the number of kit homes in Ann Arbor. If you undo the edit again, I'll simply remove the number and placehold it with a note indicating why there's no number.Kithousefans (talk) 21:16, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ann Arbor Kit Homes 

message: "Any homes built before 1908, or after 1942, cannot be a Sears Catalog home."
This kind of categorical assertion strikes me as odd. What if the kit was purchased in 1942 or before, but not built until after that year? The construction date would be the date of completion, rather than the date the materials were purchased, wouldn't it? It seems safer to say it's not likely to be a Sears Catalog home after 1942, rather than the absolute claim here.
Chrisahavel (talk) 18:17, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date range? 

message: Starting this discussion on behalf of .  I'm summarizing his case below.
He has tried to add two external links to the Sears Modern Homes wikipedia page, and the Kit House articles. Sears House Seeker and Kit House Hunters
These are not commercial sites, are ad free, and only serve to add to the understanding of the subject.  They are similar to external links that are already there.  He requests that they be reviewed to see if they can stand. TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 01:32, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links to add 

message: Suggesting the addition of the following article on the history of Sears houses under External Links. (I am an editor with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, which published the article in its magazine, Econ Focus.)
* “The House Is in the Mail: 'Kit homes' from Sears and others were an affordable housing option” Econ Focus, Second/Third Quarter 2019
7/19/2020 update: My new user name is EditorMax of RichmondFR.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by EditorMax of RichmondFR (talk • contribs) 02:03, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done --Bsherr (talk) 19:06, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link