Houses That Sears Built : Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sears Homes by Rosemary Thornton (2002, Perfect)

Gentle Beam Publications

0971558809

9780971558809

2304710

Buildings / Residential

2002

Houses That Sears Built : Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sears Homes

168 Pages

English

Yes

Architecture

Rosemary Thornton

Perfect

2002-512276

The

Between 1908 - 1940, more than 75,000 Sears homes were built. Sears kit homes contained 30,000 pieces, including 750 pounds of nails, 27 gallons of paint and a 75-page instruction book. Sears estimated that the average carpenter would charge $450 to assemble those 30,000 pieces of house. The painter's fee: $34.50. Sears estimated that other skilled labor would cost $1 an hour. Prices for these build-it-yourself kit houses ranged from $600 - $6000. Book jacket.

TH4819.P7T48 2002