{"id":615,"date":"2010-11-03T15:09:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T19:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.206.121.75\/~newsearshomes\/?p=615"},"modified":"2020-08-30T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T18:25:48","slug":"the-sears-homes-of-hampton-roads-virginia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/03\/the-sears-homes-of-hampton-roads-virginia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sears Homes of Hampton Roads (Virginia)!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years and years, I lived in the St. Louis area and that’s where I wrote my books on Sears Homes <\/a>(and where I did all the research). In 2006, I moved back “home” to Hampton Roads (where I was born and raised), and it was pure fun to spend my spare time hunting for Sears Homes.<\/p>\n

Below are just a few of the kit homes I’ve found in the area. Heretofore, I’ve found 52 in Portsmouth, 75 in Norfolk and about 15 in Chesapeake.<\/p>\n

To read another article about Sears Homes, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sears

Sears Alhambra from the 1919 catalog<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sears

Sears Alhambra in downtown Portsmouth<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sears

Sears Westly<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sears

Sears Westly in Portsmouth on King Street. Photo was taken in 2004. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sears

Sears Westly in downtown Suffolk<\/p><\/div>\n

____<\/p>\n

\"Sears

Sears Crescent<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sears

Sears Crescent in Larchmont section of Norfolk<\/p><\/div>\n

____<\/p>\n

\"Aladdin

Aladdin Kit Homes (a competitor of Sears) was very popular in Hampton Roads, probably because they had a massive mill in Greensboro, NC and shipping charges would have been affordable. Sears sold about 70,000 homes during their 32 years in the kit home business (1908-1940). However, Aladdin started in 1906 and went to 1981, selling about 75,000 houses. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"This

This Aladdin Colonial pictured below is in Suffolk. For years and years, people believed the house pictured below was a "Sears kit home." This is not uncommon. This house (below) *is* a kit home, but it came from Aladdin, not Sears.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aladdin

Aladdin - another kit home company - offered the Aladdin Colonial. This one is in Suffolk. <\/p><\/div>\n

____<\/p>\n

\"This

This is a kit home from Gordon Van Tine, a competitor of Sears in the kit home business.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Heres

Here's a Gordon Van Tine in the Ocean View area of Norfolk - and in perfect condition!<\/p><\/div>\n

_____<\/p>\n

\"Aladdin

Aladdin was very popular in the Hampton Roads area. Here's an Aladdin Venus. Note the casement windows. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"This

This Aladdin Venus still has its original casement windows. It's in Colonial Place (Norfolk). <\/p><\/div>\n

_____<\/p>\n

\"Aladdin

Aladdin Shadowlawn from the 1919 catalog. Note, this Shadowlawn has a porte cochere.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aladdin

Aladdin Shadowlawn in Prentis Park (Portsmouth)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aladdin

Aladdin Shadowlawn in Port Norfolk (Portsmouth)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aladdin

A darling Aladdin Shadowlawn in Chesapeake, VA, just across from Lowes Hardware Store on Portsmouth Blvd West. This house was moved from another location, about a mile due east on Portsmouth Blvd and it appears to be in harm's way yet again - with all the retails shops that have sprouted up around it. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"Another

Another Shadowlawn peeks from the pine trees on this quiet street in Suffolk. <\/p><\/div>\n

___<\/p>\n

\"The

The Beckley (from Sears)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This

This is The Beckley, which is in use as the Sexton's Office at a large cemetery in Newport News. <\/p><\/div>\n

______<\/p>\n

\"Ive

I've also found several homes from Gordon Van Tine in Hampton Roads.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This

This pretty little #594 sits on a large parcel of land in Chesapeake's Deep Creek area. <\/p><\/div>\n

_____<\/p>\n

\"And

And this is a Sears Americus, which was a very popular house for Sears. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"This

This Sears Americus is in Park Place on 27th Street (Norfolk). Sadly, it's been turned into a duplex. <\/p><\/div>\n

_____<\/p>\n

\"Sears

Sears Whitehall from the 1928 Sears Modern Homes catalog<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sears

Sears Whitehall just off Colley Avenue and 28th Street in Norfolk<\/p><\/div>\n

_____<\/p>\n

\"Aladdin

Aladdin kit home: The Virginia<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aladdin

Aladdin Kit Home - The Virginia - in Norfolk's Colonial Place<\/p><\/div>\n

________<\/p>\n

\"Aladdin

Aladdin Kit Home: The Pasadena<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Here

Here it is, right in Norfolk's Lafayette\/Winona neighborhood<\/p><\/div>\n

_______<\/p>\n

\"As

As mentioned, Norfolk is full of Aladdins and here's the Aladdin Edison<\/p><\/div>\n

\"An

An Aladdin Edison in Norfolk, within a few yards of the ODU campus.<\/p><\/div>\n

____<\/p>\n

\"Aladdin

Aladdin Detroit<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A

A perfect Aladdin Detroit in Chesapeake<\/p><\/div>\n

To read the next article, click here<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years and years, I lived in the St. Louis area and that’s where I wrote my books on Sears Homes (and where I did all the research). In 2006, I moved back “home” to Hampton Roads (where I was born and raised), and it was pure fun to spend my spare time hunting for […]<\/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":[318,961,369,5,113,1029,1031,367,287,11,4,536,3,96,17,1030,6,8,92,1032,916],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alhambra","tag-alhambra-illinois","tag-carlinville","tag-dale-wolicki","tag-hampton-roads","tag-houses-mail","tag-impeach-obama","tag-jim-walter","tag-jim-walter-homes","tag-rose-thornton","tag-rosemary-thornton","tag-sears-alhambra","tag-sears-homes","tag-sears-homes-of-illinois","tag-sears-houses","tag-sears-kit-home-alhambra","tag-sears-kit-homes","tag-sears-kit-houses","tag-sears-prefab-homes","tag-sears-westly-kit","tag-westly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12824,"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/12824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searshomes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}