by Sears Homes | Jul 28, 2015 | Uncategorized |
In Spring 2002, my new book on Sears Homes had just been published, and the Webster Grove Public Library (Missouri) was one of the first places that offered me a speaking gig. A few days before the big event, someone called me and asked, “Have you been out to...
by Sears Homes | Jun 4, 2015 | Uncategorized |
While doing research on Sears’ mortgages in Troy, Detroit, fellow researchers Andrew and Wendy Mutch found a mortgage for this house on Daley Road! It appears to be a Sears “Detroit,” which is a model I’ve never seen before – so that...
by Sears Homes | Apr 25, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Last week, Elisabeth Witt of Wisconsin contacted me and said she thought there were a few kit homes in Shorewood, Wisconsin. I went to Realtor.com and entered Shorewood to do a quickie search, and one of the first hits was an Aladdin Venus! Click here to see the...
by Sears Homes | Dec 17, 2014 | Uncategorized |
You really should join us in the Sears Homes group on Facebook. The old house aficionados in that group are a wild and wooly bunch who really know how to have a good time! 😉 After a recent blog on the “GVT Tower House” in Herndon and some very interesting...
by Sears Homes | Dec 15, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Updated: Look what else we found in Herndon, VA! Yesterday, I wrote a blog, asking who’d sent me a photo of a purported Sears House. Weeks (or months) after I’d told the sender that it wasn’t a Sears House, I discovered that it was a kit house, from...
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