by Sears Homes | Apr 27, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Modern Home #126 appeared in the 1908 Sears Modern Homes catalog (which was the year Sears opened their Modern Homes Department). By 1914, it shared a page with its fraternal twin, The Sears Elsmore (then known as Modern Home #208). By 1916, Modern Home #126 was gone....
by Sears Homes | Dec 28, 2014 | Uncategorized |
More than 10 years ago, Dale Wolicki and I went tooling around Ohio, looking for kit homes. That was a lot of fun. Dale was an especially patient driver, pulling over repeatedly, whenever I would screech, “STOP THE CAR!” Back in those days, I was more...
by Sears Homes | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized |
“We have worked out an attractive exterior along the lines commonly known as ‘Americanized English.'” So reads the text that accompanies the description of the pretty little Neo-Tudor, known as a “Wilmore.” And better yet, “The...
by Sears Homes | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Thanks to friends Ersela Jordan and Rebecca Hunter, I have some photos of the Sears Van Dorn. These Dutch Colonial kit homes can be hard to identify, because they’re so ubiquitous, rather simple, and sometimes, they all look alike! Ersela managed to get inside...
by Sears Homes | Dec 20, 2012 | Uncategorized |
A few days ago, I wrote a blog about the Sears Avondale in Greeley, Colorado. When that blog was posted, I had nothing more than vintage photos of this house, built by Winfred H. Senier. Thanks to Betsy Kellums of the Greeley Preservation Historic Office, I now have...
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