by Sears Homes | Sep 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
According to local lore, the sexton’s home at the Greenlawn Cemetery (in Newport News, Virginia) is a Sears Home. As is so typical with these “legends,” no one knows which model of Sears Home, only that it came from the Sears Roebuck catalog in the...
by Sears Homes | Apr 18, 2011 | Uncategorized |
We’ve got a mystery here in Colonial Place/Riverview section of Norfolk. In 2007, I moved to Colonial Place/Riverview neighborhood and in that first week, I started walking around, admiring the old houses. The first time I saw these 14 identical bungalows in...
by Sears Homes | Apr 10, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The driving-tour brochure offered by the tourism office in Hopewell, VA is called, “The Sears Roebuck Houses by Mail Neighborhood.” Not everyone would agree that eight Sears Homes within a six-block area represents a “neighborhood.” But then...
by Sears Homes | Mar 3, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In the Spring 1906 issue of American Carpenter and Builder there’s a fascinating article about the new presidential retreat, built for Theodore Roosevelt. The 15-acre retreat – known as “Pine Knob” – was built in the Piedmont area of...
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