by Sears Homes | Oct 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
The Calumet is a rare Sears kit house that was offered for a brief time in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Sears did offer a few apartment buildings (yes, as kits), and the Calumet was one of them. My favorite feature of the Sears Calumet is the wall-bed, and the...
by Sears Homes | Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Subtitled: How Time Changes Old Houses In a few weeks, I’m taking a road trip to visit a Sears Magnolia. In preparation for the trip, I’ve been studying the floor plan, and happened upon a little mystery that has had me (and many others in our Facebook...
by Sears Homes | Mar 18, 2013 | Uncategorized |
In Summer 2004, I visited the beautiful community of Cape Charles (on the Eastern Shore of Virginia), to give a talk on Sears Kit Homes. The folks there in Cape Charles treated me like a queen, and left me with many wonderful and happy memories of their hospitality...
by Sears Homes | May 15, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Post-1930s Sears kit homes are hard to find. Sales of the 12,000-piece, do-it-yourself kits plummeted in the early years after the Great Depression. But one of the most popular post-depression kit homes is the Sears Attleboro. Several years ago, when I did a survey...
by Sears Homes | Aug 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In a handful of days, I’m headed to Lake Mills, and yet I still don’t know where Dr. Oatway lived in the early 1900s! There’s a reason that this is so very important. My great Aunt (Addie Hoyt Fargo) died on June 19, 1901, allegedly from a gunshot...
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