Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog: The Complete Illustrated 1910 Edition

I watched on YouTube an interesting story about the kit houses that Sears sold. We have a house that was built in1901. Sears started the kit homes in 1910. This book is a reproduction of one of their catalogs. We saw some of our hardware and other great items. Just a fun book to enjoy.

BUY IT! Buy it for SURE! This is a gem. Tons of stuff in it, like the rolls of 1 1/2 inch lead pipe. Gotta love that!!! I found so much stuff in here that is from the year before my house was born. I uncovered some of this stuff as I replaced leaking plumbing, including the old lead pipe they used for the p-traps. AND I confirmed that my 2-panel doors could actually have been original. (A friend insists they were a '20s remodel.) I also found other old plumbing stuff, and tons of other stuff. I even figured out what used to be on the exterior of the house next door, based on what the stripping company gripe about! A wonderful read at night.

A good, clear reprint of a fascinating (for some of us) catalogue; color plates are usually reprinted in B&W, but I'm happy to report that the original color pages are reproduced very nicely here. Now if I could only order a few of those $1.64 per sq ft Art Glass windows & a couple of $24 oak mantelpieces .....

We have a 1912 bungalow and this book is going to come in SO handy as we work at undoing some of the "improvements" that have been done to it over the years. Plus it is just fun to look through. I have had a couple of catalog reproductions in the past that were very poor quality- printed on newsprint type of paper, poorly printed and hard to read or the print being so small as to be nearly unreadable. Such is not the case here. It is a crisp copy on the quality of paper you would hope for in a paperback.

I plan on building a new home over the next year and model several of the rooms in the 1910's era style, especially a bedroom with accompanying bathroom and an office. This book gives me the ability to find the items I need, and if I can't find them, I can make them. This was exactly the book I was looking for.Not to mention it is a great way to reminisce about the craftsmanship of a bygone era, or lament the lack of craftsmanship today.

Love this book. Although one may no longer order the items, the original names of the items are extremely useful when searching for thosebproducts to restore old house to original specifications.

I display it on my coffee table to help accent my house which was built in 1910 and this is an attempt to restore using modern items to accent how the prairie house would have been "family" and "livable" as today like back then.

Beautiful book! Great coffee table piece for my 1912 bungalow!

Just like the title says I was really looking forward to this and when It arrived it was a huge disappointment, they copied two pages in portrait of the orignal and made them one page in landscape. The makes most pages difficult to read without a magnifying glass at best and totally unreadable at worst. VERY VERY disappointed.

All went ok.

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