by Sears Homes | Nov 21, 2012 | Uncategorized |
“Look at those prices!” That’s probably the #1 comment I hear from people as they browse the pages of an old Sears Modern Homes catalog. Why were Sears kit homes priced so incredibly low? Well, they weren’t really. Like everything else in...
by Sears Homes | Aug 27, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Well, that’s what my husband calls it. In fact, it’s Hettick, Illinois, a small town in central Illinois, about 60 miles north of St. Louis, Missouri. When I told Hubby about the find, the West Virginia filters on his hearing translated Hettick into...
by Sears Homes | May 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Here in Norfolk, we have 16 little bungalows that were originally built at another location, and then moved here (by barge) sometime after The Great War ended in 1918. For years, that’s pretty much all that was known about them. Last month, we learned that 3,000...
by Sears Homes | Apr 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Norfolk is home to 16 of these little bungalows (see below), which were moved to their resting place in Riverview and Highland Park from another location. They’re fairly distinctive little houses, and the $64,000 question is, where did they come from? Did they...
by Sears Homes | Feb 16, 2011 | Uncategorized |
For 12 years, I lived in Illinois and I spent many happy years seeking and finding kit homes throughout the Midwest. In 2006, I moved back “home” to Virginia, and I’ve spent subsequent years looking for kit homes in the south. I’m surprised at...
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