by Sears Homes | Jan 6, 2013 | Uncategorized |
The Chelsea (Modern Home #111) was first offered in the 1908 Sears Modern Homes catalog. This spacious foursquare endured until the early 1920s, when the more modern Colonial Revivals and Tudor Revivals bumped it out of the catalogs. As is seen by the photos below,...
by Sears Homes | Dec 12, 2012 | Uncategorized |
It’s been about a year since I last stayed at the Fargo Mansion Inn in Lake Mills, Wisconsin but the many fond memories of that visit still remain. Many folks in that small, picturesque village showed me so many kindnesses. And two of the kindest, most sincere...
by Sears Homes | Nov 21, 2012 | Uncategorized |
“Look at those prices!” That’s probably the #1 comment I hear from people as they browse the pages of an old Sears Modern Homes catalog. Why were Sears kit homes priced so incredibly low? Well, they weren’t really. Like everything else in...
by Sears Homes | Aug 27, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Well, that’s what my husband calls it. In fact, it’s Hettick, Illinois, a small town in central Illinois, about 60 miles north of St. Louis, Missouri. When I told Hubby about the find, the West Virginia filters on his hearing translated Hettick into...
by Sears Homes | Mar 8, 2012 | Uncategorized |
My great aunt Addie has a lot of friends in Wisconsin. Even though Addie has been dead 111 years, she’s still a popular girl and Addie has more than 450 friends on Facebook. At this website, my blogs on Addie have been viewed by more than 40,000 people. And...
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