The Santa Rosa, by Gordon Van Tine

by | May 13, 2012 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Last week, I did a blog on the Spanish bungalow that Sears offered – the San Jose. This week, I scanned some old slides from my trip (in 2004) to Burlington, Iowa, and among those old slides was a picture of the Gordon Van Tine house – the Santa Rosa! In...

The Altona Can Be Yours for $858

by | Mar 26, 2012 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

The simpler Sears Homes are the ones that are most difficult to identify, because there’s so little to distinguish them from other houses. The fancier the kit home, the easier it is to identify. The Altona couldn’t really be classified as a...