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It was only after Jessica Todd and Dan Brill bought their home in Collingswood, New Jersey, that they found something peculiar about its history: the house came from a mail-order catalog. The home came from Sears, which sold build-it-yourself houses through catalogs from 1908 to 1940. Many of those homems are still standing in the Garden State today, and some residents might not know they’re living in one. “It’s kind of like a piece of history,” Brill said. “It’s like, who can say that their house was built by someone that went to the Navy yard, and had all the pieces put on the truck and brou…