South Side on Lamar

The Sears, Roebuck and Company distribution center in Dallas sits as a massive, five-story concrete monolith featuring a distinct clock tower rising above the Cedars neighborhood. Completed in nineteen ten, the complex served as the regional engine for the company’s mail-order business across the Southwest. When the facility opened, thousands of locals gathered to watch the clock hands move for the first time, marking the start of an era where this building connected rural Texas homes to big-city goods through a thick paper catalog.