Sears House Designs of the Thirties
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At the heart of this now-rare publication were measured floor plans for 68 Sears homes. Over 200 illustration displayed interiors and exteriors for such handsome residences as the Belmont, a six-room house with vestibule, breakfast alcove, three bedrooms, and one-and-a-half baths; and the Dover, an English-styled cottage with a massive chimney and unusual roof lines. Photographs of some interiors revealed a furnished living room with paneled side walls and hewed oak ceiling beams; a spacious kitchen with contemporary appliances; a 60-foot living room with a huge stone fireplace, built-in bookshelves, a vaulted ceiling, and other designs.
An invaluable sourcebook for restorationists, this handsome volume will also be of use to people interested in preserving homes of the period. It will be welcomed by anyone who relishes a glimpse of America's architectural past.
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The Largest
Home Building Organization in the World
EVERYONE KNOWS that Sears, Roebuck and Co. is in fact, as well as in name the World’s Largest Store. Financiers, business and mercantile leaders can tell you that about one per cent of the nation’s business—or about three hundred and fifty million dollars a year—is done by this one concern. No wonder! More than twelve million families are proud to tell you We buy at Sears.
YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS TOO. The Home Construction Division of Sears, Roebuck and Co. is the biggest home building organization on earth. It is a separate and distinct unit of the company, owning its own factories, employing upwards of 2,500 in its own organization, and with a trained personnel experienced, over 25 years, in every phase of fine home building. What other organization in the world can say the same?
Nearly sixty thousand homes already constructed —from foundation to roof—equivalent to the number of homes in a city of two or three hundred thousand people. In scores of cities there are complete construction offices devoted exclusively to selling these fine homes—modest cottages of four rooms—mansions of forty and more. Even exposition buildings for the United States Government! No building undertaking too large—none too small.
A GIANT CRAFTSMAN. Fourteen million feet—about 70 times as much as the average yard is the storage capacity of his lumber plants. He operates ten great factories for building needs only. At one of them the huge ocean freighters come right up to his own docks to unload raw materials and supplies for this single forty-acre plant. That saves many dollars on transportation.
The enormous dirigible Los Angeles
could conveniently find mooring space in one of the buildings at this Port Newark, New Jersey, plant if other equipment were removed. Nearly one hundred feet high, five hundred feet long, and one hundred sixty feet wide, this single building is a giant hive of industry itself. But there are others.
In Norwood, Ohio, the World’s Biggest Home Builder operates a seventeen acre sash and door factory able to produce three and a half million dollars worth of millwork a year—doors, windows, everything that helps make four walls a home. And the eyes of the giant watch quality at every step. The best materials, skillful workmanship and low cost are his exacting demands of man and machine.
A birdseye view of our 17 acre sash and door factory in Norwood, Ohio.
A birdseye view of our huge lumber and millwork plant at Newark, N. J.
YET ANOTHER 40-ACRE PLANT. To serve the great Midwest and South a combined lumber and millwork plant of forty acres is kept humming at Cairo, Illinois. Batteries of singing saws and crooning planers, creeping caterpillar tractors, and husky cranes are kept busy preparing material that will save the building workman’s time and your money. If a special machine is needed to handle a job more efficiently, more economically, that machine is bought, invented, if necessary.
MACHINES DO EVERYTHING BUT THINK. Like mighty mechanical ants, and as busy, are the peculiar trucks that haul tons of building supplies underneath their stilt-wheeled bodies; fast moving electrically driven, they pick up their own piles and drop them down without a slip just as real ants carry crumbs. One remarkable rafter machine does three things at once, beveling both ends and cutting the notch for the top plate with lightning speed, and absolute accuracy. Human hands cannot compete with such machines. Fewer minds are needed to guide them. But so great is the number of machines that hundreds of skilled mechanics are needed to operate those in our lumber and millwork factories alone.
ONE AND TWO STORY SKYSCRAPERS. Just as the big girders for the framework of skyscrapers are fabricated at the mills, so are the joists, sills, studs, plates, and rafters for your home measured, cut and marked at the factory. Carpenters like to have materials arrive this way, just as cooks like to have butter the size of an egg, a cup and a half of sugar,
etc., on hand when baking. Neither too much nor too little, but the right amount, of the right quality, ready to use. Furnishing the framing parts this way eliminates tiresome back breaking toil and enables carpenters to concentrate on construction, to work faster, do more and earn more.
CONTRACTORS PREFER THIS METHOD. Contractors recognize these advantages. One contractor who has built more than one hundred residences this way said recently, Since there is no hand sawing to be done, and no waste of lumber, I do not have to charge for these. I pass these savings along to the home owner in the form of a lower construction price. This method is better for me too, because I can get the work done sooner and can send my men on to other jobs, handling more business in less time.
THE GREATEST VALUES FOR YOUR BUILDING DOLLARS. Our many lumber, millwork, paint and roofing factories, wall paper mills, and other related plants, reduce your building costs still further. When we build your home, we know what are the best materials and equipment to use, and the lowest price at which these can be obtained. Our tremendous buying power and our complete manufacturing facilities make it possible to obtain or produce these products for you at that low price. Only by buying direct from the World’s Largest Home Building Organization can you make these big savings. Only from a general merchandise institution, such as Sears, Roebuck and Co. can you get an iron-clad guarantee of complete satisfaction. We are in the home building business to make life-long friends and to create steady customers for The World’s Largest Store.
Nowhere else can you get such big values for your home building dollars.
What This Means to You!
First of all, doing things on a big scale implies tremendous buying power. Mass production plus this greater buying power means extra economies, prevention of waste, not skimping of materials. This in turn brings top quality at low prices.
But low prices aren’t enough. The valuable experience gained by the Largest Home Building Organization in the World, twenty-five years of it, is worth much more to you. This twenty-five years experience saves you disappointment as well as money. It has shown the way, not only to lower home building cost, but to better homes, better construction, and happier home ownership.
Everything–We Need to Build –including Money!
PLANS. Here at your disposal to pore over and to study is the world’s biggest library of fine home designs and suggestions. Your ideas and suggestions—what you want—are welcomed and made practical at a price you can easily afford.
Artists picture many fine homes for your study exactly as we have built them for others. Experienced home counselors confer with you so that you consider every comfort and convenience that will make your home most livable and attractive. Nothing is forgotten. Then the value of the completely built house is guaranteed as the final price to you. No needed extras
later to boost the bill.
Sears two hundred million dollar guarantee of satisfaction begins here.
MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT. Only top quality materials and equipment with the best performance records, tested over a twenty-five year period in nearly sixty