by Sears Homes | Jun 29, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Updated!! See detailed photos here!! A few moments ago, my sleepy husband stuck his head into the room and said, “It’s 3:11 in the morning. Why are you still up?” “Well, I think we’ve found our eighth Magnolia,” I replied....
by Sears Homes | Jul 3, 2012 | Uncategorized |
As a child of the 1960s, I grew up watching The Andy Griffith Show on television and loved each and every episode and each and every character. My mother would tell me that “Aunt Bea” reminded her a lot of her own mother, Florence Appleby, a woman who died...
by Sears Homes | May 5, 2011 | Uncategorized |
We have confirmation on our seventh Magnolia. Absolute, incontrovertible proof. Earlier this month, I contacted the owner, and learned that she has documentation, showing that this house did indeed come from Sears and Roebuck. Between that, and the visual...
by Sears Homes | Feb 3, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday, after a massive “tidy up all the mess in the attic” project, I found photos of the Sears Magnolia in Canton, Ohio. In Fall 2002, PBS History Detectives invited me to appear on their second episode (first season), to do a story on the Sears Homes...
by Sears Homes | Aug 17, 2010 | Uncategorized |
In the 1980s, I rode by this house (see pics below) and saw that it had been lifted from its foundation, and according to the placard in the window, was headed to a new site, about 2 miles west on Portsmouth Blvd (Route 337). A new foundation was prepared at the new...
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