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! 😉 After a recent blog on the “GVT Tower House” in Herndon and some very interesting...
by Sears Homes | Nov 20, 2014 | Uncategorized |
In August 2014, I traveled to Jacksonville to get photos of two Gordon Van Tine homes that were built side-by-side in the early 1920s and featured in a promotional booklet. While I was there, I drove around the rest of the city and discovered several kit homes, from...
by Sears Homes | Aug 12, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Sears gets all the ink, but fact is, Gordon Van Tine was a very substantial (and impressive) kit home company, too. You can learn a lot about GVT by visiting Dale’s website here. Sears sold about 70,000 kit homes, and Gordon Van Tine – based in Davenport,...
by Sears Homes | Jun 1, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Yes, that’s a true fact. Back in the day, I actually kept track of such numbers, and back in the day, I found that about 80% of the people who thought they had a Sears kit home were wrong. Eighty percent. Typically, these folks did in fact have a kit home, but...
by Sears Homes | May 23, 2013 | Uncategorized |
But I’m not one of them. Since 1981, I’ve worked for myself, owning a series of small businesses, some of which have been successful and some of which have not. Currently, I only have one small business (“Gentle Beam Publications”) which...
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