by Sears Homes | Jul 25, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Last month, I spent several days traveling in South Carolina. I visited many cities in the northern part of South Carolina but found very few Sears Homes. The highlight of the trip was Anderson, where I found several kit homes from Sterling Homes (a competitor to...
by Sears Homes | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In all my travels, I’ve only seen two examples of Sears Modern Home Model #163. The first was in Taylorville, Illinois, and the second was in Raleigh, NC. In talking with my dear friend Rebecca Hunter, I learned that she’d never seen one either. In other...
by Sears Homes | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Tens of thousands of homeowners turned to Plan Books for their housing needs in the early 1900s. It was similar to buying a kit home, but with a few important differences. After browsing the pages of a plan book (filled with pretty pictures of pretty homes),...
by Sears Homes | Jun 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In 1978, soon after my first husband and I were first married, we sat down and looked through a Jim Walter Homes catalog. The idea of building a kit home was hugely appealing to us. In the end, we decided to buy an existing home, but throughout the years, the idea of...
by Sears Homes | Jun 13, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Carlinville is a small city in central Illinois (population 5,400) with 152 Sears Homes in a 12-block area in a neighborhood known as Standard Addition. It is NOT the largest collection of Sears Homes in this country (as is often reported), but it does have the...
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