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The local newspaper ran a cover story on catalog houses before her arrival.

She contacted mail-order catalog houses, arranged for direct sales by telephone or the company's Web site.

The Catalog House was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 17, 2000.

If catalog houses were once dismissed as middlebrow prefabs, the tendency now is to elevate their origin to a suburban legend.

However, the company experienced steadily rising payment defaults throughout the Great Depression, resulting in increasing strain for the catalog house program.

Catalog House Building at 600 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago.

Catalog House, served as the company headquarters until 1974, when the offices moved across the street to a new tower designed by Minoru Yamasaki.

STELCO Catalog Housing (1967) early study of mass-produced steel housing.

Extech Instruments's handheld test instruments are sold through a network of national catalog houses, regional stocking distributors and international distributors.

My plants, grown from the pedigreed tubers of a revered catalog house, were flourishing and pest-free when I broke my leg, badly, about a month before harvest time.

It is possible that the house may be a catalog house or "kit house", as they also are known, assembled from prefabricated materials that are sold directly to homeowners.

The two oldest buildings are the Administration Building, with 400,000 square feet of space, and the Catalog House, with more than two million square feet of space.

Here buyers can find anything from paperback mysteries, novels and plays to foreign language tomes, esoteric monographs on philosophy, religion, and history, and art catalogs housed in shoeboxes.

John T. Lovett owned a nursery that once covered almost half the borough, supplying large catalog houses such as Sears Roebuck, Macy's and Newberry's.

WHAT - 2-bedroom house HOW MUCH - $439,000 This 1930's Sears, Roebuck catalog house has a white picket fence with a trellis over the gate.

Historically, Ms. Burke explained, the clergy was dressed by highly skilled artisans - monks and nuns and artisanal guilds - and more recently, and increasingly, by large catalog houses.

Containing nearly 45 million individual cards, the copyright card catalog housed in the James Madison Memorial Building is an index to copyright registrations in the United States from 1870 through 1977.

They have restored the church, still standing on its original site in the village, and are now turning a 1930's Sears Catalog House into a museum to document African-American and American Indian life on the East End.

In the theater of dining, "it just doesn't cut it," Mr. Herman said, to pick a "one from Column A, one from Column B uniform," from catalog houses like Cintas or Angelica.

The boardroom reasoning might go like this: since progrock fans are connoisseurs who actively seek out the different and aren't afraid of the obscure, well then, the tiny catalog houses can - quite expensively, to be sure - keep that music and its history alive for them, so what's the problem?

On the other hand, I'm still intimidated by Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson's giant tree in "Giant," Sydney Pollack's grand holiday party in "Eyes Wide Shut" and the Martha Stewart-perfect catalog house in the "Miracle on 34th Street" remake.

Even before the biblical-scale assembly line of Long Island's Levittown (built in the late 40's and early 50's and still, at 17,000 houses, among the most ambitious residential construction projects in American history), Sears, Roebuck & Company shipped more than 100,000 mass-produced catalog houses to places all over the country.