Is it Really a Magnolia?

by | Jan 31, 2011 | Uncategorized | 5 comments

For years, it’s been widely believed that only six Sears Magnolia kit homes were built in the country. Six. They’re located in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Alabama, North Carolina, and Ohio. There was a Magnolia in Nebraska, but it burned down many years ago....

Sweet Home Alabama!

by | Sep 11, 2010 | Uncategorized | 8 comments

Heretofore, there are only six known Magnolias in the country. Six. And there’s one in Alabama! What is a Sears Home? These were kit homes, sold from the Sears Roebuck catalog from 1908-1940. The houses arrived by train, in 12,000-piece kits.  (And you thought...

Sears Homes in Alabama

by | Sep 10, 2010 | Uncategorized | 7 comments

On a prior post (Sears Magnolia in Piedmont, Alabama), I talked about photographing a Sears Magnolia in Piedmont. What I did not talk about was the trip. I traveled from Norfolk, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia and met up with my friend Nancy (who lives in Acworth), and...

Another Sears Magnolia – in Alabama!

by | Sep 9, 2010 | Uncategorized | 3 comments

This (picture below) is the third Sears Magnolia I have visited in person. There were purportedly six built (but the validity of the fact is in question). Rebecca Hunter discovered that there’d been a Sears Magnolia in Nebraska (1) which had burned down many...