by Sears Homes | Mar 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
An EPA press release (3/23/2011) proclaims that this government agency has successfully taken a 2×4 to the knees of yet another small business. They’ve inflicted a $30,000+ fine on a Connecticut-based construction company for the unspeakably horrific crime...
by Sears Homes | Mar 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Hopewell, Virginia has eight Sears homes in their Crescent Hills neighborhood, but they have dozens of Aladdin kit homes throughout the city. It’s a puzzle why so much focus is put on those eight Sears Homes, while the many Aladdin homes are ignored! If I were a...
by Sears Homes | Mar 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Henry David Thoreau said, “Simplify, simplify, simplify” (and Ralph Waldo Emerson is purported to have responded, “I think one simplify would have been enough”). Thoreau would have loved the early 20th Century breakfast nook! Built-in breakfast...
by Sears Homes | Mar 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In downtown Hopewell, not too far from the water, there’s an impressive collection of early 1910s Aladdin Kit Homes. While the city of Hopewell has put its focus on their eight Sears Homes in Crescent Hills, they’ve well-nigh ignored these many blocks of...
by Sears Homes | Mar 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I’m an architectural historian. I research old houses and I write books and I galavant around the country telling people how to restore their old homes. When people are trying to locate hard-to-find supplies for their vintage homes, they contact me. This is what...
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