by Sears Homes | Apr 26, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Sometime in 2005, the new owner of the Sears Magnolia in Piedmont, Alabama sent me several dozen photos of the house. Recently, I rediscovered the CDs. Those photos reminded me that I also had a 1984 newspaper article about that Magnolia. Unfortunately, I do not have...
by Sears Homes | Apr 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
It was Mr. J. M. Dozier of Lee Hall, VA that purchased Penniman after World War I ended. Thursday, after spending many hours at the York County Courthouse, I learned that Mr. Dozier bought Penniman from DuPont in April 1926, after the U. S. Army left. J. M. Dozier and...
by Sears Homes | Apr 22, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Pink bathrooms. I love them all. I wish I could save every pink bathroom in America. I eschew the fools who decimate and destroy old bathrooms. For one, it violates the First Commandment of Old House ownership: “Thou shalt not destroy good old work.”...
by Sears Homes | Apr 20, 2014 | Uncategorized |
…combined with the advantages of a two-story house! So promised the advertising copy that accompanied the pictures in the 1914 Aladdin Homes catalog. One week ago today, hubby (Wayne) and buddy (Milton) and I were wandering around Carney’s Point, NJ,...
by Sears Homes | Apr 18, 2014 | Uncategorized |
In the Summer of 1918, the Great War was very much on everyone’s mind. In reading through Ladies’ Home Journal and McCalls’ magazines, I’ve found a plethora of articles about women’s’ war work, and what ladies could do – at...
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