by Sears Homes | Apr 6, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Before you start reading this, please usher the children into another room and/or tell them to cover their ears and hum. Sears only offered two models of kit homes that had a sink in the closet. One was their fanciest house (“The Magnolia”) and the other...
by Sears Homes | Jan 30, 2015 | Uncategorized |
* * * * * * If you know the precise address of this house, please send it along. It’s in Norwood, Ohio and the street number is 2215 (visible in the photos above). All I need now is the street’s name! Update! Dale Haynes (from our Sears House Facebook...
by Sears Homes | Dec 8, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Last month, I traveled to Oklahoma to visit Rachel Shoemaker, and we had a lovely couple days together. Rachel drove me out to Chelsea (down historic Route 66), where we saw a picture-perfect Sears Saratoga. Next stop was just around the corner, where Rachel showed me...
by Sears Homes | Oct 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
The Calumet is a rare Sears kit house that was offered for a brief time in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Sears did offer a few apartment buildings (yes, as kits), and the Calumet was one of them. My favorite feature of the Sears Calumet is the wall-bed, and the...
by Sears Homes | Aug 9, 2013 | Uncategorized |
The Germans call it schadenfreude. Here in Virginia, we call it “The Crab Theory.” Schadenfreude means – quite literally – delighting in the misfortune of others. I came across this wonderful word when I was writing my book, The Ugly...
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