by Sears Homes | May 30, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In all my travels, I’ve seen only one Sears Hillrose, a spacious foursquare offered by Sears Roebuck. (Updated! I’ve now seen a surfeit of Hillroses! You can read about them here!) That Hillrose was in Prophetstown, Indiana (near West Lafayette) and it was...
by Sears Homes | May 30, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Saturday morning, my dear husband arose at 5:30, had his morning coffee and by 6:00 am, he had started on his assigned chore: painting the kitchen in old 1925-built Colonial Revival. I helped a bit, but he did the lion’s share of the work on Saturday. Sunday...
by Sears Homes | May 28, 2011 | Uncategorized |
We have confirmation on our seventh Magnolia. Absolute, incontrovertible proof. Earlier this month, I contacted the owner, and learned that she has documentation, showing that this house did indeed come from Sears and Roebuck. Between that, and the visual...
by Sears Homes | May 28, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In “Driving Miss Daisy,” there’s a scene where Hoke is studying family pictures in Miss Daisy’s home and he comments “I just love a house with pictures, Miss Daisy. It do make a house a home.” When we first moved into 3916 Gosnold...
by Sears Homes | May 28, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In the 1916 Modern Homes catalog, Sears offered a new product: Goodwall Sheet Plaster. It was promoted as being far better than traditional plaster, which involved a painstaking, labor-intensive process of nailing up thousands of pieces of wood lath (small, thin wood...
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