by Sears Homes | Jan 30, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Since August 2010, I’ve written almost 700 blogs. That’s a lot of blogs. Each blog has three or more photos. That’s thousands of photos. Some of these blogs took several hours to compose, and then get bumped off the page within a week of their...
by Sears Homes | Jan 6, 2013 | Uncategorized |
The Chelsea (Modern Home #111) was first offered in the 1908 Sears Modern Homes catalog. This spacious foursquare endured until the early 1920s, when the more modern Colonial Revivals and Tudor Revivals bumped it out of the catalogs. As is seen by the photos below,...
by Sears Homes | Mar 14, 2012 | Uncategorized |
David Spriggs and I have spent countless hours reading old newspapers. We’re reading the Lake Mills Leader (Wisconsin) looking for more information on Addie Hoyt, and we’re also reading the Virginian Pilot, hoping to find a photo of the houses that were...
by Sears Homes | Feb 27, 2012 | Addie |
In one of Addie’s obituaries, she was described as “a gifted woman possessing…a fine literary ability.” As a writer, I longed to hear Addie’s “voice.” The written word can provide so much insight into a writer’s soul. I...
by Sears Homes | Feb 25, 2012 | Uncategorized |
On Friday, I posted a detailed blog about Addie’s deep roots in the Lake Mills community. Addie Hoyt (1872-1901) was the granddaughter of Kimball Hoyt and his wife, Sally Sanborn Hoyt. The Hoyts first came to Jefferson County in 1843. When Sally Sanborn Hoyt...
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