by Sears Homes | Apr 27, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Modern Home #126 appeared in the 1908 Sears Modern Homes catalog (which was the year Sears opened their Modern Homes Department). By 1914, it shared a page with its fraternal twin, The Sears Elsmore (then known as Modern Home #208). By 1916, Modern Home #126 was gone....
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 | Jan 7, 2015 | Uncategorized |
What are the odds that this rare and wonderful old Sears House is still alive and well in New Orleans? I don’t know enough about NOLA to even venture a guess. Last night, I went to a favorite site (Realtor.com) and looked up “houses for sale”...
by Sears Homes | Dec 17, 2014 | Uncategorized |
You really should join us in the Sears Homes group on Facebook. The old house aficionados in that group are a wild and wooly bunch who really know how to have a good time! 😉 After a recent blog on the “GVT Tower House” in Herndon and some very interesting...
by Sears Homes | Dec 15, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Updated: Look what else we found in Herndon, VA! Yesterday, I wrote a blog, asking who’d sent me a photo of a purported Sears House. Weeks (or months) after I’d told the sender that it wasn’t a Sears House, I discovered that it was a kit house, from...
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