{"id":11824,"date":"2020-06-19T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/?p=11824"},"modified":"2020-09-03T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:20:18","slug":"exciting-things-happening-in-alton-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/19\/exciting-things-happening-in-alton-il\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting things happening in Alton, IL!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in Alton, I’m working with the a local historical group\u00a0<\/a>to put together a “driving tour” of the Sears kit homes in Alton. With the virus concerns, what better way to continue with their wonderful tradition of highlighting this city’s remarkable and unique architecture!<\/p>\n

If you want to contact Rose, you can find her on Facebook, via the group “Sears Kit Homes.”<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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A beautiful example of the Sears Dover, in Alton, IL.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Good-looking house (1938 Sears Modern Homes catalog)<\/p><\/div>\n

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One of my long-time favorites is this Sears Modern Home #118, the former site of the Springman Lumber Company.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here’s the SMH #118, as seen in the 1916 Modern Homes catalog.<\/p><\/div>\n

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One of my long-time favorites, this little Sears “Starlight” is in almost perfect (original) condition.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Sears Starlight was hugely popular for Sears (1928 catalog).<\/p><\/div>\n

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This mostly original Lorain is in Alton, not far from the old train station.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The 1930s Lorain had a rounded dormer, but the 1940 catalog shows the more traditional gabled dormer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alton “Wardway #106” which is hidden by the trees, so I resorted to Google Images.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The #106 as seen in the 1916 Wardway catalog.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here in Alton, I’m working with the a local historical group\u00a0to put together a “driving tour” of the Sears kit homes in Alton. With the virus concerns, what better way to continue with their wonderful tradition of highlighting this city’s remarkable and unique architecture! If you want to contact Rose, you can find her on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11824"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13003,"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions\/13003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}