Is Your Old Erie Home a Sears Kit Home?
Is your old Erie, PA area home a Sears Kit home? If it is, I'd like to feature it on my blog. Email me pictures at thisolderiehouse@verizon.net if you'd like to share your pictures.
How do you know if you have a Sears Kit home? If your house was built between 1908 and 1940 you can go to this link Sears Kit Homes and check the pictures and the floor plans.
Remember, often there were later additions, remodels or porch enclosures done to a home. Sometimes the architectural features like the brackets on the eves are taken off and the eves boxed in so your house may not look exactly like the pictures. Sometimes it takes an expert to tell (and there are a few actual experts out there that do travel around the US verifying Sears Kit homes.) But for our purposes, if your house has most of the features for a particular model, please email me some pictures of your house and I'll feature them.
If you can't find your house in the Sears Kit catalogue, try this link for homes from 1908 to 1954 Aladdin Kit Homes. I'd like to feature those, too.
How do you know if you have a Sears Kit home? If your house was built between 1908 and 1940 you can go to this link Sears Kit Homes and check the pictures and the floor plans.
Remember, often there were later additions, remodels or porch enclosures done to a home. Sometimes the architectural features like the brackets on the eves are taken off and the eves boxed in so your house may not look exactly like the pictures. Sometimes it takes an expert to tell (and there are a few actual experts out there that do travel around the US verifying Sears Kit homes.) But for our purposes, if your house has most of the features for a particular model, please email me some pictures of your house and I'll feature them.
If you can't find your house in the Sears Kit catalogue, try this link for homes from 1908 to 1954 Aladdin Kit Homes. I'd like to feature those, too.
Labels: aladdin kit homes, erie pa, old houses, Sears kit homes
posted by Erie's Argonaut at 1/15/2007 12:24:00 PM
3 Comments:
We were always told that the house I grew up in, in Erie, was a Sears kit home. It's not ours now, but it's stil standing, and I do have pictures. Are you interested?
I'd love for you to send them to me. I'll try and identify which model it may be. If you know the year it was built it will be easier to find which model it is. Thanks!
thisolderiehouse@verizon.net
If you ever find an Aladdin Wabash XVII pictured on p. 45 of the 1920 Aladdin catalogue please post here. For some reason my acct won't work so I must post as anonymous
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