Sears Homes of Northern Illinois

by | Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

In early 2009, The History Press contacted me and asked me to write a book on the Sears Homes of Illinois. Interestingly enough, the title was to be The Sears Homes of Illinois. In early February 2010, I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia and went to northern Illinois...

Jim Walter Homes – Where’d They Go?

by | Oct 24, 2010 | Uncategorized | 15 comments

In 1978, soon after my first husband and I were first married, we sat down and looked through a Jim Walter Homes catalog. The idea of building a kit home was hugely appealing to us. In the end, we decided to buy an existing home, but throughout the years, the idea of...