by Sears Homes | Mar 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I’m an architectural historian. I research old houses and I write books and I galavant around the country telling people how to restore their old homes. When people are trying to locate hard-to-find supplies for their vintage homes, they contact me. This is what...
by Sears Homes | Mar 21, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Continued from Part One (here). As mentioned in the prior post, I visited Hopewell recently and found that they do have EIGHT real, live Sears Homes in Crescent Hills. Unfortunately, they don’t have as many as they originally thought, but these eight are pretty...
by Sears Homes | Jan 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Sears offered three grades in all their lines: Good, better and best. In the 1922 Sears Modern Homes catalog, the housing lines were known as Honor-Bilt, Econo Built (later known as “Standard Built) and Lighter Built. Honor-Bilt homes (their best grade and most...
by Sears Homes | Oct 24, 2010 | Uncategorized |
From 1908-1940, Sears sold houses by mail order. These 12,000-piece kits came with a 75-page instruction book that told the wanna-be homeowner how to put it all together. Sears promised that a “man of average abilities” could have it 100% complete in 90...
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