by Sears Homes | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Take a guess what this item is (shown below). * * * * * Up until sheetrock became widely accepted, a home’s interior walls were finished with plaster. Today, the word “plaster” is used loosely to describe any gypsum-based wall covering, but in fact,...
by Sears Homes | Apr 7, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Until I started scanning a 1914 Sears Modern Homes catalog, I’d never heard of Sears Modern Home 264P165. Prior to 1918, Sears Homes were given names rather than numbers, so we know that this unusual-looking home never made it to the 1918 catalog. In fact,...
by Sears Homes | Jun 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The cover of the 1921 Sears Building Materials catalog has proven to be a source of endless entertainment for me. But then again, I’m pretty easily entertained. I’ve started scanning catalogs and ephemera so that it may be preserved and shared with a...
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