by Sears Homes | Aug 3, 2012 | Uncategorized |
You might be surprised to learn how often kit homes are moved from their original site to a new location. Judging by the frequency with which these homes are picked up and moved, re-locating a kit home must be, 1) A do-able (albeit complicated) process 2) Financially...
by Sears Homes | Aug 2, 2012 | Uncategorized |
When my dear friend Dale heard the saga about the threatened demolition of the Pop Culture Building (a mail-order kit home) at BGSU, he offered to send me photos of the other kit homes he’d found in Bowling Green, Ohio. Bowling Green has an impressive array of...
by Sears Homes | Jul 9, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Prior to May 2012, I’d never heard of Somerville, New Jersey. And then I wrote a blog on the Sears Milton, and on the catalog page that features the Sears Milton, there was a small snippet mentioning that the Milton had also been built in Somerville, New Jersey....
by Sears Homes | Mar 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The Sears Lewiston was an immensely popular house for Sears, and one glance at these photos (below) tell why. It was a charming, practical, cottage-flavored house with an expandable attic and an optional raised roof (for lots of extra rooms). The diamond muntins on...
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