by Sears Homes | Jul 9, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Friday night, I was “driving” the streets of Tulsa (via Google Maps), looking for kit homes when I happened upon a familiar-looking house from Pacific Ready Cut Homes. “What in the world?” I thought to myself. I pulled out some old books and...
by Sears Homes | Jul 7, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Chelsea, Oklahoma is a wee tiny town about an hour from Tulsa, and for decades, a big fancy Sears Saratoga got all the attention as the only Sears House in town. Recently, I’ve been working with Rachel Shoemaker to identify more Sears Homes in the area, and...
by Sears Homes | Jul 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
One of Sears most popular kit homes was the Westly. It’s an easy house to identify because it’s quite unique. The roof line on the rear of the house does not come down as far as the roof line in the front. That dormer on the front is also pretty...
by Sears Homes | Jun 30, 2011 | Uncategorized |
“Never before has America seen a house like this,” read a 1949 advertisement for the Lustron, also hailed as “the house of the future.” The Lustron was an all-steel house, with walls made of 2×2 20-gage metal panels, with a porcelain...
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