by Sears Homes | Oct 17, 2014 | Uncategorized |
In the last two years, I’ve visited Richmond three times and have seen many parts of the city, but it would seem that I missed the 5100-block of Riverside Drive all three times! * Last month, after my lecture, a woman came up to the podium and said,...
by Sears Homes | Jun 16, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Thanks to Staunton resident and old house lover Linda Ramsey, we’ve now made several fun discoveries of kit homes in Waynesboro, using only Linda’s photos, good work and persistence! (To read Waynesboro Part I click here. For Part II, click here.) And...
by Sears Homes | Mar 28, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Last week, I drove up to Charlottesville for an overnight trip, and I stopped in Mineral, Louisa and Gordonsville. In Louisa, I found the World’s Most Perfect Kentucky (an Aladdin kit home), and if that had been the only kit home I’d found during the trip,...
by Sears Homes | Mar 22, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Aladdin was probably the biggest of the six national companies that sold kit homes through mail order. And here in Virginia, the majority of kit homes I’ve found are Aladdins. This is probably due to the fact that Aladdin had a huge mill in Wilmington, NC....
by Sears Homes | Oct 31, 2012 | Uncategorized |
My friend Ersela lives in a part of West Virginia that is currently getting hammered by an especially chilly version of Hurricane Sandy. Thus far, almost two feet of wet snow has fallen on her beautiful Kilbourne. Here in Norfolk (where I live), “Sandy”...
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