I recently unearthed a new Sears Kit House Catalog from 1927. Cool summer cottages with names like The Dove Haven, and The Sunny Lane. You can click the little box with the four arrows in it (lower right) to make the slide show fill your screen, then click it again after you are done to come back to the forum. You can stop the slide show any time to take a good look at something.

Have fun. Lauren

Thanks for posting this. I'll take a look at them in a little bit. I have seen on ebay once in a great while, the Simplex Houses catalog for sale . I think these were sectional houses you could bolt together but am not sure.

Nope these were not the bolt together type of house. They were "Ready - cut and fitted" just like the other house kits.

L.

Thanks i didn't know that about the summer cottages. I have a book on Sears Houses from the national Trust for Historic Preservation
called "Houses by Mail", as well as from Dover Publications a reprint of Sears 1926 catalog, which has the Simplex houses in the back of the book.I'll have to look at those two pages,but i think the Simplex you bolted together.

By the way, where did you find this catalog?
Around here for some reason, even the few times I check out antique stores, i can't seem to find
any house plan catalog books, Sears or other companies.I guess people around the San Antonio area didn't save these books.
Yet I do know that Harris Brothers, Sears and Aladdin sold their homes around here, because they mention places like New Braunfels, Boerne,etc. in some of their customer testimonial letters.There is a house in Cibolo,Texas thatwas built from a Fred T.Hodgson
design in one of his books.