by Sears Homes | Feb 15, 2016 | Uncategorized |
According to newspaper accounts, Ethel didn’t die easy. For 10 days in November 1918, she lingered in a Richmond hospital before succumbing to her injuries, caused by two bullet wounds through her left lung. In the last days of her life, between labored breaths...
by Sears Homes | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Ralph and Ethel were married, but not to each other. About 7:00 o’clock, standing on a sidewalk at a busy intersection in downtown Richmond, Ralph and Ethel got into an argument. Ethel had just stepped off the train, and the two started quarreling. Ralph pulled...
by Sears Homes | Jan 21, 2016 | Uncategorized |
How did New Bern come to have so many kit homes? Is it because of New Bern’s proximity to Aladdin’s largest mill in Wilmington, North Carolina? Perhaps, but how does that explain the grandiose Sears Homes I found on Spencer Street? It’s a mystery,...
by Sears Homes | Jan 19, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Fun times in New Bern! Mr. Hubby and I just returned from a visit to New Bern, NC where we stayed at the Aerie Bed and Breakfast and spent the days seeing the sights (and looking for kit homes). Within New Bern’s Ghent neighborhood, we found an abundance of kit...
by Sears Homes | Aug 2, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Webster Groves has a multitude of interesting old kit homes, and one of my favorite finds is this 1910s Dutch Colonial, offered by Lewis Homes. Lewis was one of six national companies selling kit homes through mail-order catalogs in the early 20th Century. Sears was...
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