https://files.catbox.moe/d5u901.jpgThe Magnolia house was a Sears kit home, 1918
For nearly 30 years, people could order a piece of the American dream through the mail.
A buyer could leaf through a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog, choose a house and mail in the order. In time, a railroad boxcar would chug into town, carrying a ready-to-assemble house — complete with nails and a 75-page instruction book.
Most of the house kits came in a single box car. The model named the Magnolia, sold between 1918 and 1922, needed two.
