Montgomery Ward's Mail-Order Homes; A History and Field Guide to Wardway Homes

Five years in the making, Montgomery Ward's Mail-order Homes was researched and written by America's top experts in the field of early 20th Century kit homes: Rose Thornton and Dale Wolicki. Learn more about this fascinating chapter of our country's architectural heritage. Open this book's pages and rediscover this amazing time in history when American men and women ordered their dream home from the pages of a mail-order catalog.

When Dale and Rose started publishing books and articles on kit homes, there was very little information available on Wardway Homes, but as interest in this subject increased, people started sharing their stories with us, and sharing their historic documents, blueprints, catalogs and more. And that's the reason we wrote this book; to create a reference book for people who want to know more about the mail-order homes of Montgomery Ward.

Montgomery Ward's Mail-order Homes includes a field guide to Wardway Homes, with easy-to-read drawings and floorplans, vintage illustrations and original catalog images, contrasted and compared with contemporary photos. Organized by housing style, this field guide will allow readers to quickly determine if their home could be a Wardway Home.

Montgomery Ward's Mail-Order Homes provides a fascinating look into the early 20th Century kit homes that were ordered from the Ward's catalog.