by Sears Homes | Feb 19, 2018 | Uncategorized |
While little is known about the men who worked at Penniman, even less is known about the women of Penniman, and yet, the majority of the workforce at DuPont’s 37th munitions plant were women. Loading TNT powder into 75mm and 155mm shells was a nasty bit of...
by Sears Homes | Feb 10, 2018 | Uncategorized |
In the last 20 years, I’ve probably received more than 200 emails and inquiries from folks who think they’ve found a Sears Magnolia. In the last 20 years, I’ve found four Magnolias as a result of these emails and inquiries. That means that 2% of the...
by Sears Homes | Jul 17, 2017 | Uncategorized |
An update! It’s not a “Sears kit house,” but a Penniman house. Kind of. š And “Sears House” is in quotes, because we all know, 99% of the time (or maybe 100%), these horrible TV shows get it wrong. And they are horrible. One of the first...
by Sears Homes | Apr 15, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Every now and then, I get a call about someone famous who grew up in a Sears kit home. In 2009, I was contacted by a big-deal rock star (through his representative). This musician wanted to know if the house he’d grown up in was a Sears kit house! That was a lot...
by Sears Homes | Feb 22, 2016 | Uncategorized |
So read the liner notes for the Sears “Croydon,” a darling Tudor Revival from the late 1930s. From what we can discern, the Croydon was offered only in 1939 and 1940, the final two years of the Sears Modern Homes program. These post-1935 Sears Homes are...
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