by Sears Homes | Jul 28, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Come August 2014, this website will celebrate its fourth birthday, and one of my very first posts at this site was about this little mystery house in Ohio (shown below). Unfortunately, I never did find this house, or learn anything about the couple in the photo. I...
by Sears Homes | Jun 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The cover of the 1921 Sears Building Materials catalog has proven to be a source of endless entertainment for me. But then again, I’m pretty easily entertained. I’ve started scanning catalogs and ephemera so that it may be preserved and shared with a...
by Sears Homes | Mar 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I’m an architectural historian. I research old houses and I write books and I galavant around the country telling people how to restore their old homes. When people are trying to locate hard-to-find supplies for their vintage homes, they contact me. This is what...
by Sears Homes | Feb 4, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Years ago, I was reading an early 20th Century book on house painting and there, amidst the many ads for “high quality, high lead” paints and “natural horse hair bristle brushes” was a little snippet on painting porch ceilings. “Sky...
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