by Sears Homes | Feb 23, 2012 | Uncategorized |
After my father passed on in June 2011, I was cleaning out his assisted living facility and that’s when I discovered two photo albums from the late 1800s, belonging to Addie Hoyt, my great, great Aunt. In that same old shoe box, I also found – laying loose...
by Sears Homes | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Less than 30 miles from Philadelphia there’s an entire neighborhood of Sears Homes. According to the 1921 Sears Modern Homes catalog, they’re in Chester, PA. The houses were built in the early 1920s by a company known as “Sun Ship Company.”...
by Sears Homes | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Whilst driving around Hampton, I found more than 50 kit homes in this historic river city. Not surprisingly, there are almost as many Aladdin Kit homes in Hampton as there are Sears kit homes. Aladdin (like Sears), sold their kit homes through a mail-order catalog....
by Sears Homes | Feb 18, 2012 | Uncategorized |
I’m mighty happy to be in my new home, but one of the things I miss from the old place is my little 96-square-foot house. David Strickland designed it and built it in September 2008, and it is a real beauty. It has more than 250 linear feet of crown molding, a...
by Sears Homes | Feb 15, 2012 | Uncategorized |
In 1918, Penniman was a real boom town, with 10,000 living in the village and another 10,000 to 20,000 people living in the outlying areas. By 1920, it was all over, and the 250+ houses in the village were boarded up and moved to other places. Penniman, Virginia, sat...
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