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 7, 2015 | Uncategorized |
According to the promotional literature, the Sears Wabash was “a house planned and designed by U. S. Government architects.” I’m not sure when The Wabash first appeared, but I found it in my 1916 catalog (and not the 1914 catalog). In 1916, it was a...
by Sears Homes | Jul 28, 2015 | Uncategorized |
In Spring 2002, my new book on Sears Homes had just been published, and the Webster Grove Public Library (Missouri) was one of the first places that offered me a speaking gig. A few days before the big event, someone called me and asked, “Have you been out to...
by Sears Homes | Jul 24, 2015 | Uncategorized |
The word Villa literally means, “country house” and it’s also the name of Aladdin’s finest home. Just like Sears, Aladdin sold kit homes through mail order catalogs. Aladdin was actually a bigger company than Sears, and lasted longer. Sears...
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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