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How To Find Sears Modern Homes
Sears houses; what; how to identify;kit;catalog;modern;homeshem Identifying Sears homes can be difficult when the houses have been modified. The above color picture is of a Sherburne model Sears catalog home. Above that is a catalog page for the ... [... more]
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Windows on the past
A window on the past: Sears Catalogue Home Model "Carlin," named in honor of the town of Carlinville. This house is one of the few in the town that still has all its original exterior features. The year was 1918. Fueled by the opening of a new . [... more]
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A solid old house for $25,000
The "Gladstone" Sears Kit Home of Brad and Jolene Little. Front door moved to the right in recent remodeling. The Littles paid $25,000 for the house and invested that much in improvements. Price and location were the selling points for ... [... more]
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Tiny white tiles and big soaking tubs
The Fentons' "Whitehall" retains many original features, including this bathroom with tiny white and blue tiles set in mortar and pedestal soaking tub. Eric and Judy Fenton bought their home, also on University Street, in 1995. They live with .. [... more]
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The Carlin, No. 3031
This house is somewhat similar in appearance and arrangement to our Lebanon Modern Home, illustrated on page 39. The exterior is quite pleasing and the balcony on the second floor is a much desired feature. From the porch, a glazed door leads ... [... more]
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Sears Homes Old Catalog
Sears;houses;home;modern;kit;catalog;identify;find;railroad;build;fix; Being a fanatical collector of Sears Homes ephemera, I was bidding on a SearsModern Homes catalog on e-Bay a few weeks ago. I intended to set my alarmclock for the wee hours ... [... more]
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Community of Sears Homes
Sears;houses;home,homes;kit,catalog,build,find,modern,historic,identify A whole community of Sears Catalog Homes was built in Carlinville, Illinois in 1918. Standard Oil, owner of a local coal mine, spent $1 million building 156 homes in ... [... more]
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Sears Modern Homes Resources
Sears,houses,homes,modern,catalog,boxcar,railroad,find,research,identify Asher, Louis E. and Heal, Edith. Send No Money. Chicago: Argus Books, 1942. Emmet, Boris and Jeuck, John E. Catalogues and Counters, A History of SearsRoebuck and Company. ... [... more]
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Sears Homes Houses by Mail
Sears;houses;home,homes;kit,catalog,build,find,modern,model,identify Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears Roebuck and Company, isregarded by many experts as the authoritative research tool on Sears cataloghomes. It lists 447 different ... [... more]
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The Houses That Sears Built:
Between 1908 and 1940, Sears customers ordered about75,000 houses from Sears Roebuck and Company mail-order catalogs. Today these houses have become a treasured piece of Americana. Yet while interestin Sears homes is soaring, research by an ... [... more]
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The Preservation of Glazed Terra Cotta
What is terra-cotta? Types of terra-cotta Characteristics of glazed architectural terra-cotta Common deterioration problems Deterioration inspection and analysis Maintenance, repair and replacement Summary Taking it further Terra-cotta detail on ... [... more]
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Those Dandy Houses
A few months after The Houses That Sears Built was first published (2002), I received an e-mail from Richard Herman in Ohio. On page 116, you mentioned a testimonial from Kaczmasek, he wrote. Could that be a misspelling of the name ... [... more]
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