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 | 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 | Dec 14, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Update! Mystery solved! The house is in Herndon, VA. Click here for more better photos! And click here to see what else we found in Herndon! A few weeks ago, someone sent me this photo (shown below), telling me that they’d always heard it was a Sears House....
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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