by Sears Homes | Dec 19, 2014 | Uncategorized |
In the last couple years, I’ve had probably about 20 requests for more information on Jim Walter Homes. As mentioned in a prior blog, the company started doing business in 1946 and ceased in 2009, having sold about 320,000 homes. That’s a lot of houses....
by Sears Homes | Dec 16, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Recently, a fellow history lover (Carmen) sent me a photo of her 1954-built home and said that she’d heard it was a Jim Walters’ Home. I dragged out my lone Jim Walter Homes catalog (November 1971), and didn’t find a match. However, I had so much fun...
by Sears Homes | Jan 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Simplex Sectional Cottages were very simple houses – to say the least. They were – without a doubt – the bottom rung of the construction ladder. These were prefab vacation cottages that could be disassembled and packed away when it was time to go...
by Sears Homes | Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In early 2009, The History Press contacted me and asked me to write a book on the Sears Homes of Illinois. Interestingly enough, the title was to be The Sears Homes of Illinois. In early February 2010, I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia and went to northern Illinois...
by Sears Homes | Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized |
For years and years, I lived in the St. Louis area and that’s where I wrote my books on Sears Homes (and where I did all the research). In 2006, I moved back “home” to Hampton Roads (where I was born and raised), and it was pure fun to spend my spare...
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