by Sears Homes | May 1, 2019 | Uncategorized |
There are so many reasons to loathe the Open Floor Plan concept. HGTV (Houses Getting Totally Vandalized) is the most egregious offender, encouraging every old-house homeowner to rip out a home’s interior walls, and decimate its historicity, charm and appeal....
by Sears Homes | Aug 23, 2015 | Uncategorized |
The Aladdin Westwood was offered only in the 1922 catalog, which is curious. It’s a beautiful house and quite massive, but apparently the Sovereign brothers decided it wasn’t a keeper. In September 2013, I gave a talk in nearby Louisa, Virginia and drove...
by Sears Homes | Dec 17, 2014 | Uncategorized |
You really should join us in the Sears Homes group on Facebook. The old house aficionados in that group are a wild and wooly bunch who really know how to have a good time! š After a recent blog on the “GVT Tower House” in Herndon and some very interesting...
by Sears Homes | Dec 15, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Updated: Look what else we found in Herndon, VA! Yesterday, I wrote a blog, asking who’d sent me a photo of a purported Sears House. Weeks (or months) after I’d told the sender that it wasn’t a Sears House, I discovered that it was a kit house, from...
by Sears Homes | Oct 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
The Calumet is a rare Sears kit house that was offered for a brief time in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Sears did offer a few apartment buildings (yes, as kits), and the Calumet was one of them. My favorite feature of the Sears Calumet is the wall-bed, and the...
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