Houses by Mail : A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company

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Summary: This book is full of building ideas for miniaturists.
Review: This is a wonderful book of history about how houses could be purchased in the early 1900's. It is also a great source for people interested in miniatures and the building of scale houses. Pictures, drawings and floor plans are all here.

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Summary: An exhaustive reference of catalog houses from Sears.
Review: This is an excellent resource for amateur preservationists and architectural historians alike. The introduction is an excellent background into the how, why and where of these houses as well as containing some great turn of the century interior shots. I am privileged enough to live in a neighborhood filled with the sturdy beauties from this book and plan to use it to educate my neighbors about their 1900-1910 architecture.