by Sears Homes | Sep 2, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Becky Gotschall initally contacted me through Facebook, and said that she’d found “a few kit homes” in her neck of the woods. Inspired by her enthusiasm, I started “driving the streets” of Pottstown, Pennsylvania (via Google Maps™) and...
by Sears Homes | Aug 29, 2015 | Uncategorized |
At first, I thought about titling this blog, “With a little help from my friends,” because – like so much of this research – I wouldn’t have much to write about if it wasn’t for fellow kit-house lovers who are always on the look-out...
by Sears Homes | Aug 25, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Sometime in the late 1990s, my then-husband and I visited this Aladdin Magnolia at a Sunday open house. We were living in Alton, IL at the time, and often we’d visit open houses in the area – purely for sport. Of course, in the 1990s, I didn’t know...
by Sears Homes | Aug 23, 2015 | Uncategorized |
The Aladdin Westwood was offered only in the 1922 catalog, which is curious. It’s a beautiful house and quite massive, but apparently the Sovereign brothers decided it wasn’t a keeper. In September 2013, I gave a talk in nearby Louisa, Virginia and drove...
by Sears Homes | May 1, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Almost five years ago, I wrote a blog on the Sears Ivanhoe in LaGrange, Illinois (discovered in a promotional flyer), and mentioned that it’d be fun to have a contemporary photo of the 1913-built house. Some time later, William Frymark found the house in...
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