Kit homes were ordered from store catalogs before 1950. How many are still in Lansing? ... Mutch used deed records to verify that both are Wardway Homes sold as kits by Montgomery Ward.

Sears and Montgomery Ward offered mortgages on their kit homes at a rate of about six percent, says Mutch. Payments ranged from about $25 to $75 a month, depending on the length of the mortgage.

“We’re trying to capitalize on the strengths people recognize from the brand, like home furnishings, electronics, and apparel,” he says. While he would not reveal any circulation specifics, Milgrom ...

Swiss Colony President John Baumann says the 116-page Montgomery Ward catalog will be printed in February and should be received in home by early to mid-March. “We’re hoping for three to four drops ...

Montgomery Ward, now an online U.S. retailer, plans to revive its iconic catalog in a brand-rebuilding ... mean Wards will return to selling major home appliances like former rival Sears, Roebuck ...

The homes were sold through the Sears Roebuck catalog from 1908 ... favorable financing." Kit homes were sold by other manufacturers, including Aladdin and Montgomery Ward. Andalusia: A 1920 ...

Montgomery Ward later added distribution centers and 500-plus stores. It also grew its catalog offerings to include items such as Wardway house kits and even cats, dogs and ponies. However, by the ...

Five years after Montgomery Ward went out of business ... established domain and catalog names. A former lighting products supplier to Sears, Roebuck and Co.’s home furnishings catalog, he ...

The original king of mass retailing is dead. Struggling and lost among today’s giants such as Sears, Wal-Mart and The Gap, the venerable Montgomery Ward is liquidating and firing 37,000 emplo… ...

Five years after Montgomery Ward went out of business, its brand name has been revived on the Internet and there's even a 21st-century version of the Wards holiday catalog that was standard fare ...