by Sears Homes | Sep 28, 2011 | Uncategorized |
My adventure into this Addie Hoyt story began with an ending: My father’s. Friday morning at 2:35 am, after sitting at his bedside for some time, my father breathed his last. In the solemn quietude of that darkened room, I walked over to my husband, sleeping on...
by Sears Homes | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In all my travels, I’ve only seen two examples of Sears Modern Home Model #163. The first was in Taylorville, Illinois, and the second was in Raleigh, NC. In talking with my dear friend Rebecca Hunter, I learned that she’d never seen one either. In other...
by Sears Homes | Sep 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Sometime in the late 1910s, Mr. D. S. Chase of Grafton, Massachusetts bought and built a Sears Maytown in Grafton, Massachusetts. I discovered this when I was reading through the testimonials in a 1921 Sears Modern Homes catalog. The house in the 110-year-old snapshot...
by Sears Homes | Sep 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
My dad used to joke about our little Puritan (Sears house). He said the postman brought it. When my mother died in 1918 (in the flu epidemic), she left behind five children, ages 10, 8, 6, 4 and an 18-month old toddler. At the time, we were living in a poor area...
by Sears Homes | Sep 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
One of Sears most popular kit homes was The Gladstone. It was a small foursquare, but apparently its design, size and price appealed to thousands of American families. It was most certainly on of Sears Top Ten Most popular homes. Below are some pictures of The...
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