Springfield
Reviewing a few houses
So many houses….so little time. I’ve only really featured a small percentage of the Sears Houses I have seen in person here on this little blog. Since I’m in Ohio, the Heart of it All and the Heart of Sears Houses, I can’t go too many places around my area without seeing one, or two, or […]
The Sears Houses in Garden Acres (Springfield)
Hey there, my few and faithful followers. What a year this is turning out to be, huh? I know you all have a story to tell about how your lives have been affected by the events that have occurred in 2020. I do, too, but one thing I didn’t expect to happen was that my […]
A Sears Walton in Dayton
Way back at The beginning……. when I did my very first mortgage research, I discovered that my County (Clark) had 36 mortgages for houses purchased as kits from Sears, Roebuck. Most of the mortgaged parcels were strung out all over the County, but nine of them were located in one small platted neighborhood. Garden Acres. I’ve been […]
Another Sears Concord (Xenia)
A while back I located a 1930’s Sears model, The Concord, right here in my hometown – Springfield. A Sears Concord in Springfield The Concord has great history for Sears Roebuck, as it was the model they chose to be on display in Chicago at the 1933 World’s Fair, “A Century of Progress”. Due […]
A “Beautiful Home” from The Keith Corporation – Springfield
A couple of years back, I was asked if I could do a little research on a house in a neighborhood where there was going to be an Architectural Walking Tour.. By sheer luck, I was able to locate the home design in a pattern book from Walter J Keith. Pattern book homes are often confused […]
A Sears Olivia in Springfield
I first started out on my quest to locate houses purchased from the Sears Modern Homes catalog here in my hometown of Springfield, Ohio in 2010. I already knew I lived in a Sears Jeanette model, discovered by my daughter while she was researching small house plans on the Internet a couple of years earlier. […]
A Sears Conway in Springfield
You know, I hardly ever post about Sears Houses here in my hometown of Springfield, the place where my love of these homes started. I really need to prioritize better. But today, after getting a reminder about a house I noticed last year, I decided to show you this one. People, I have driven past […]
A Home Builders Davenport in Springfield
Collaboration has helped me identify another pattern book home built right here in my hometown of Springfield. Well, sort of. Recently I was included in a group text message between a few other Sears House researchers, asking for input about a brick home that one of said researchers had questions about. “Did anybody recognize it” […]
Gunnison Homes in Springfield
Gunnison Magic Homes- Gunnison Homes- United States Steel Homes I had heard about Gunnison Homes. I had even been in one, when it was listed for sale a while back. But I thought they were just some plain old Pre-Fabricated House from the 1950’s, and not of much interest. But twice this Summer, they came […]
Is this a Sears No. 123? (Richmond, Indiana)
Summer is here! And that means day trips! Not always to look for Sears Houses, but that seems to happen along the way wherever I go. And that’s what happened this week. I had a great girl’s day out with a couple of good friends. The idea was to go antiquing in Richmond, Indiana. […]
Sears Houses in Ohio 