by Sears Homes | Jul 2, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The Sears Berwyn (named for a city in Northern Illinois) was one of their most popular houses, and it’s a cutie-pie of a house, too! The double-arched front porch makes it easy to identify. * * * * * * * * * * To learn more about Sears Homes, click here. To read...
by Sears Homes | May 31, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Thanks to Donna Bakke, we now have photos of a real live Sears Wabash. The house is in Wyoming, Ohio (near Cincinnati), and it’s had a few changes but not too many. To read the previous article on the Sears Wabash, click here. * * * * * * * To read the previous...
by Sears Homes | May 29, 2012 | Uncategorized |
It must have been hard to write magniloquent, enchanting copy to accompany (and pitch) each of the 370 models that Sears offered in their Modern Homes catalog. And yet, some of these descriptions are pretty darn good – such as this one. The Maywood two-story...
by Sears Homes | May 7, 2012 | Uncategorized |
In February 2003, I traveled to Flora, Illinois to give a talk on Sears Homes. It was one of my first “paid gigs,” and I was very excited about actually getting paid to do the thing I loved the most – talk about Sears Homes! In celebration of this...
by Sears Homes | Sep 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
According to local lore, the sexton’s home at the Greenlawn Cemetery (in Newport News, Virginia) is a Sears Home. As is so typical with these “legends,” no one knows which model of Sears Home, only that it came from the Sears Roebuck catalog in the...
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