by Sears Homes | Apr 25, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Last week, Elisabeth Witt of Wisconsin contacted me and said she thought there were a few kit homes in Shorewood, Wisconsin. I went to Realtor.com and entered Shorewood to do a quickie search, and one of the first hits was an Aladdin Venus! Click here to see the...
by Sears Homes | Aug 22, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Tonight, for the first time in months, I got on the ham radio, calling CQ on the 40-meter band. My second contact was “Bob.” In a flash, my buddy Milton (sitting with me) looked up Bob’s call sign on his computer, and started laughing hysterically....
by Sears Homes | Aug 22, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Hopewell! Alas, poor Hopewell. They have an interesting collection of Aladdin kit homes, and yet for reasons that elude me, they’ve done nothing to promote these homes. One example is this Aladdin “Carnation” (shown below). It sits in a working class...
by Sears Homes | May 7, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Last month, we drove from Norfolk to Philladelphia to visit the National Archives and Records Administration. En route, we took a slight detour to Carney’s Point, NJ to check out the houses in that neighborhood. Carney’s Point, like Penniman, eventually...
by Sears Homes | Nov 21, 2013 | Uncategorized |
The Aladdin Edison must have been a very popular house for Aladdin. It was small (600 square feet), affordable ($750 in 1914) and from an architectural standpoint, a real cutie pie. According to the 1914 catalog, it was “One of the prettiest little bungalows...
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