Beautiful Brown Bungalow in Lebanon, Ohio

This post was originally published by Laraine Shape on December 16, 2013

Beautiful Brown Bungalow at 466 Columbus Ave. Lebanon, Ohio.

If you ever drive down Columbus Ave. in Lebanon, Ohio to or from the Kroger store, you can’t miss it. It’s one of the prettiest houses in town. And that’s saying a lot because Lebanon is loaded with eye candy when it comes to houses. Not to mention all the other wonderful things Lebanon has to offer. It’s just about perfect when it comes to small town living.

This charming brown bungalow is just beautiful. It even has a beautiful, matching garage that looks almost too pretty for parking a car in!

Notes about this post

Along with featuring wonderful photos of Sears Houses, Laraine would occasionally post pictures of other lovely homes she spotted along her path.   This “Beautiful Brown Bungalow” is one of those houses.

She posted several additional pictures of this home from her Dec 16, 2013 visit, but for some reason, I did not capture all of them.

No matter, I stopped and took my own photos of this beauty long before Laraine spotted it.  The following photos are my own, but obviously they were not taken in December.

Sears Four Family Apartment Houses in Wyoming, Ohio

This post was originally published by Laraine Shape on December 5, 2013

To a SEARS Roebuck kit home enthusiast, finding an authentic Sears four-family in great condition is like finding a crop of morel mushrooms to a
mushroom hunter. Pure gold. Imagine finding six of them within a mile of each other!

Welcome to Wyoming Ohio. A Norman Rockwellesque vision of tree-lined
streets and architectural eye candy like nothing you’ve ever seen. Everything from Victorian “painted ladies” to stately stone mansions. If you were looking for architectural heaven and found Wyoming, you’d be doing all right.

And when it comes to exceptional examples of Sears kit homes, it’s a veritable treasure trove. All told, Wyoming has about 2 dozen Sears Modern Kit Homes including the five four-family apartments shown here.

Here’s a look at the five apartment homes (dubbed The Atlanta) billed by Sears as

“A four-family apartment house with five rooms and bathroom for each family, that can be built at a very low cost and will make an exceptionally good paying investment. A light shaft in the center gives light and ventilation for the halls and bathrooms. A private porch provided for each family.”

 

A Sears Atlanta at 414 Poplar Ave. Wyoming, Oh

 

 

A Sears Atlanta at 35 Sherry Rd., Wyoming, Oh

 

A Sears Atlanta (with enclosed porches) at 1100 Springfield Pike, Wyoming, Oh

 

A Sears Atlanta (with enclosed porches) at 1114 Springfield Pike, Wyoming, Oh

 

A Sears Atlanta (with enclosed porches) at 1056 Springfield Pike Wyoming, Oh.

 

And here’s number 6. It’s in Hartwell which is within spitting distance of Wyoming

136 Sheehan in Hartwell (right next door to Wyoming)