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Car Show Classic – 1952-54 Sears Allstate: The American Dream, As Sold Through A Sears Store
(This was an article I posted over at the website Curbside Classic a while back. Researching info for this article led me into my first foray into the world of kit home searching) In the late 1940’s, Henry J. Kaiser … Continue reading
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The Kit Homes of the Grosse Pointes, Michigan
The Grosse Pointes (commonly shortened to “The Pointes”) is a group of idyllic suburbs Northeast of Detroit, MI. These communities were originally part of Grosse Pointe Township, but broke up over various reasons in the late 19th and early 20th … Continue reading
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Sears Sherwood in Leetsdale, PA
This year has been a “bumper” year for finding examples of the Sears Sherwood kit home, as we have gone from knowing that two examples existed (according to information from the Sears Archives list), to knowing of the address of … Continue reading
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