by Sears Homes | Aug 30, 2012 | Uncategorized |
As mentioned in a prior blog, Sesame Street children are familiar with a toe-tapping ditty that helps them learn how to observe what makes things similar and dissimilar. Those same life lessons are of inestimable value in identifying and authenticating Sears Homes. In...
by Sears Homes | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Sterling was one of the six national companies selling kit homes through a mail-order catalog. Like Aladdin, Sterling Homes was based in Bay City, Michigan. While Sterling was successful in selling their kit homes nationwide, they were a much smaller company than...
by Sears Homes | May 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Here in Norfolk, we have 16 little bungalows that were originally built at another location, and then moved here (by barge) sometime after The Great War ended in 1918. For years, that’s pretty much all that was known about them. Last month, we learned that 3,000...
by Sears Homes | Apr 12, 2011 | Uncategorized |
To read the most recent update, click here! There are 16 of these little bungalows in Norfolk (see below) moved from another location. According to local lore, these houses were floated up the Lafayette River from an unknown city (where they were originally built)....
by Sears Homes | Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized |
As mentioned in prior posts, Hopewell, Virginia is the proud owner of eight bona fide Sears homes in the Crescent Hills area. That’s well and good, but they also have entire neighborhoods of Aladdin kit homes in other parts of Hopewell. It’s a puzzle...
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