by Sears Homes | Oct 17, 2014 | Uncategorized |
In the last two years, I’ve visited Richmond three times and have seen many parts of the city, but it would seem that I missed the 5100-block of Riverside Drive all three times! * Last month, after my lecture, a woman came up to the podium and said,...
by Sears Homes | Sep 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
“Sears sold about 70,000 kit homes during their 32 years in the kit house business,” I tell folks at my lectures, “but judging from my emails, you’d think that number was 70 million kit homes.” Some people really, really, really want...
by Sears Homes | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized |
When I visited Hopewell in 2003 (to give a talk), I was shown a well-publicized brochure touting 44 Sears Homes in Crescent Hills. As mentioned in several other blogs (here, here and here), I feel strongly that they’re wrong about 36 of those houses. In my...
by Sears Homes | Aug 30, 2012 | Uncategorized |
As mentioned in a prior blog, Sesame Street children are familiar with a toe-tapping ditty that helps them learn how to observe what makes things similar and dissimilar. Those same life lessons are of inestimable value in identifying and authenticating Sears Homes. In...
by Sears Homes | Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Since I moved to Norfolk in September 2006, the 16 identical bungalows on Ethel Avenue have been whispering my name, and imploring me to come close, and learn more about their unique origins. Problem was, I could never quite make out what they were saying. For years,...
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