UNION COUNTY, N.M. (KFDA) - Ruben visits Amistad in New Mexico and learns about a 119-year-old mail order home that now serves as a museum.

Barbara Mullins Copeland, historian at the Little House Museum, says some time around 1906, the home was ordered.

“It came from the plains, the materials, including the windows, the doorknobs, everything. The ceiling, that beaded ceiling that all came in bundles from Chicago, Illinois, on the railroad,” said Copeland. “Then it came to Nara Vista, and from there it was freighted, the bundles and everything to over here, close to Amistad.”

Copeland says back then, it was common to order because there wasn’t much lumber on the prairie.

Montgomery Ward, Sears, and a few other places sold house kits.

“You can find them in small towns. If it’s a two-sto

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