by Sears Homes | Dec 1, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Before 1918, Sears Homes were given numbers, not names. From a marketing perspective, it was brilliant to assign names to these models. After all, would you rather tell Mum and Dad that you’re buying “Sears Modern Home #2089” or that you’ve...
by Sears Homes | Nov 29, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Or maybe both? Yes, the Flossmoor was a Sears House that was offered for a short time in the late 1910s. By 1923, it was gone. The massive cornice returns make it easy to identify. Another eye-catching feature is the clipped gable and the grouping of three windows on...
by Sears Homes | Apr 23, 2012 | Uncategorized |
As a native of the Tidewater region (Southeastern Virginia), I’m not sure why Sears (based in the Midwest) decided to name one of their little kit homes “The Marina.” “Marina” comes from the Latin word marinus, which means “of the...
by Sears Homes | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Less than 30 miles from Philadelphia there’s an entire neighborhood of Sears Homes. According to the 1921 Sears Modern Homes catalog, they’re in Chester, PA. The houses were built in the early 1920s by a company known as “Sun Ship Company.”...
by Sears Homes | Oct 4, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In early 2009, The History Press contacted me and asked me to write a book about the Sears Homes of Illinois. For more than three weeks, I traveled throughout Illinois, documenting and photographing the Sears Homes from Cairo to Chicago. My adventure began in early...
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