by Sears Homes | Oct 28, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Recently, I was on the William and Mary College campus doing research on Penniman, Virginia. (You can read more about that here.) As part of the research, I was reading through the early 1920s college yearbooks and happened upon an interesting photo in the 1922...
by Sears Homes | Oct 11, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Recently, Rachel Shoemaker was looking through a Sears Modern Homes catalog (1930) when she discovered a testimonial for a Sears Elmhurst built in Flushing, New York. She then did some extra digging and was able to glean the home’s current address. In fact,...
by Sears Homes | Oct 7, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Several weeks ago, a reader of this blog told me that he owned a Sears Elmhurst in St. Louis, and he was kind enough to send me a few photos. To my surprise and delight, he was right! It really was an Elmhurst. Last month, I visited the Elmhurst “in...
by Sears Homes | Sep 24, 2013 | Uncategorized |
About 1999 or so, my [then] husband and I went to an open house in Alton, Illinois where we saw a darling house. Last month, while I was looking through a 1952 Aladdin Homes catalog, I [re]discovered that darling house! The house my husband and I had toured in 1999...
by Sears Homes | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized |
A couple days ago (May 1st), I returned to Staunton to do a little more research on the kit homes in the city (in preparation for my talk on May 2nd), and this time, I was driven around by Frank Strassler, head of the Historic Staunton Foundation. It’s a lot...
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