by Sears Homes | Nov 4, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Soon after I moved to Colonial Place/Riverview (Norfolk) in March 2007, I heard the story about the little bungalows in Riverview that (allegedly) had been moved there from The Jamestown Exposition (1907). According to the local legend, the houses had been built for...
by Sears Homes | Jan 30, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Since August 2010, I’ve written almost 700 blogs. That’s a lot of blogs. Each blog has three or more photos. That’s thousands of photos. Some of these blogs took several hours to compose, and then get bumped off the page within a week of their...
by Sears Homes | Mar 11, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Sometimes, when you’re running down a mystery, there are wonderful and unexpected surprises. Such a thing happened Friday morning. An email appeared in my inbox, from a woman who was the granddaughter of Warren B. Hastings. Mr. Hastings owned a stevedore company...
by Sears Homes | Feb 15, 2012 | Uncategorized |
In 1918, Penniman was a real boom town, with 10,000 living in the village and another 10,000 to 20,000 people living in the outlying areas. By 1920, it was all over, and the 250+ houses in the village were boarded up and moved to other places. Penniman, Virginia, sat...
by Sears Homes | Jan 1, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Since I moved to Norfolk in September 2006, the 16 identical bungalows on Ethel Avenue have been whispering my name, and imploring me to come close, and learn more about their unique origins. Problem was, I could never quite make out what they were saying. For years,...
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