by Sears Homes | May 16, 2014 | Uncategorized |
How fitting that Sears would name one of their finest Dutch Colonials “The Amsterdam.” After all, Amsterdam is the capital of The Netherlands! In Dutch, the word Amsterdam translates into “Groot-Mokum” – hence, the title of this blog. I...
by Sears Homes | May 7, 2014 | Uncategorized |
If HUD gets its way, a beautiful, mostly original Sears Alhambra in Portsmouth, Virginia will soon be remuddled into a homogenized plasticine mess. The old Sears kit home is in a historic district of Portsmouth (Cradock), and – speaking as an architectural...
by Sears Homes | Mar 14, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Several days ago, I wrote a blog about an old Gordon Van Tine “Roberts” somewhere in Wheeling, West Virginia. The house was built in the 1920s by a fellow named Otto Friebertshauser. I found out about this house when I obtained a copy of Gordon Van...
by Sears Homes | Mar 8, 2013 | Uncategorized |
* Updated with NEW photos! See below!! * OOOH, I now have contemporary photos of Otto’s house! To read Part II of this blog (and see new photos), click here. Thanks to indefatigable researcher Rachel Shoemaker, I now have a digital copy of the 1931 brochure,...
by Sears Homes | Jun 7, 2012 | Uncategorized |
In 2002, I was invited to participate in filming one of the first episodes of History Detectives (PBS). In 2002, I traveled to Ohio for the show, and on the first day of filming, we visited this Sears Magnolia in Canton. I took several photos while we were there, and...
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