by Sears Homes | Jan 7, 2019 | Uncategorized |
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” That’s a quote from Jonathan Swift, who died in 1745. (For the youngsters, that was a couple years before the internet was invented.) There’s a photo of...
by Sears Homes | Sep 13, 2015 | Uncategorized |
In 1918, while the War to End All Wars was raging in Europe, Cradock (a neighborhood in Portsmouth, VA) was born. The US Government funded the creation of Cradock, and the implementation of the Garden City Concept (originally developed in the United Kingdom in 1898)...
by Sears Homes | Sep 7, 2015 | Uncategorized |
It’s two, two, TWO houses in one! The catalog page featuring the Sears Arlington promoted it as a “Colonial House with a Bungalow Effect.” Maybe we should just call it, “The Colongalow”! [Kah-lon-ga-low] And what’s not to love about...
by Sears Homes | Sep 2, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Becky Gotschall initally contacted me through Facebook, and said that she’d found “a few kit homes” in her neck of the woods. Inspired by her enthusiasm, I started “driving the streets” of Pottstown, Pennsylvania (via Google Maps™) and...
by Sears Homes | Aug 8, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Last week, I was in the St. Louis area, visiting my precious daughter and her family. During our time together, we journeyed to Edwardsville, IL. I asked Levi (husband of precious daughter) to take me to a part of Edwardsville where there’s a lake, and he took...
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