[JudgemAll]

It used to be a cool company with a Catalogue selling mail order materials to build yourself a house.

[Pelham]

The house components arrived individually numbered like the pieces of a puzzle and you assembled them on site. Everything you needed was included.

Look what a couple thousand US dollars would buy you at Sears 100 years ago:

http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/1908-1914.htm

https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/a20859/sears-sold-70000-homes-from-their-catalog-are-you-living-in-one/