by Sears Homes | Apr 2, 2015 | Uncategorized |
These last few months, I’ve been doing a proper survey of kit homes in Hampton, Virginia. I went out yesterday to check one last section one last time (which I’ve now visited twice), when this handsome bungalow jumped out of the bushes and called my name....
by Sears Homes | Apr 21, 2013 | Uncategorized |
There are many ways to find a Sears House, but Andrew and Wendy Mutch found a very rare Sears House in Ann Arbor using a technique I had never thought about before: Reading the obituaries. They discovered an obituary for an elderly woman that mentioned the building of...
by Sears Homes | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Whilst driving around Hampton, I found more than 50 kit homes in this historic river city. Not surprisingly, there are almost as many Aladdin Kit homes in Hampton as there are Sears kit homes. Aladdin (like Sears), sold their kit homes through a mail-order catalog....
by Sears Homes | Jul 5, 2011 | Uncategorized |
One of the most interesting stories I ever heard came from a man who grew up next door to a Sears Corona in Gillespie, Illinois (about 70 miles northeast of St. Louis). It was 2003, and I’d just finished a talk on Sears Homes in Bloomington, Illinois. A nice...
by Sears Homes | Feb 8, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In Spring 1972, one of my junior high school teachers told the class to make a “special project” that featured some aspect of Colonial Williamsburg. As good Virginians, we were studying this period in American history for about the 7th time in my seven...
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