by Sears Homes | Dec 8, 2012 | Uncategorized |
What a difference a day makes! Early this morning, I posted the information about Dr. Malone and his Sears Hamilton at a forum and a kind soul did some research on her own and sent me this link. That link sends you to a narrative, written by Dr. Malone’s...
by Sears Homes | Dec 8, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Sears started offering kit houses in 1908, but when was the first Sears Home sold? Well, for years, we believed that the first order for a Sears House wasn’t actually received until 1909 (based on info gleaned from the Sears archives in Hoffman Estates, IL). But...
by Sears Homes | Sep 16, 2012 | Uncategorized |
When Dale and I visited Bedford, Virginia in 2008, we drove around for some time, striving to find the Sears Hamilton that (according to the Sears catalog) had been built there in the mid-1910s. Dale drove slowly and methodically throughout the county (and the city)...
by Sears Homes | Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized |
In 2004, Dale Wolicki invited me and Rebecca to visit him in Michigan. One of our stops was Bay City, where we saw all manner of Aladdin kit homes, including “The Oxford.” Our wonderful tour guide (Dale), told us that the photograph of the Oxford model...
by Sears Homes | Mar 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
More than 80% of the time, people who think they have a Sears kit home are wrong. Often, those folks do have a kit home, but it’s not a kit home from Sears. Here in Virginia (where I live), most “Sears homes” that I investigate turn out to be kit...
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