Sears Houses in Wyoming, Ohio

Originally posted by Laraine Shape on January 14, 2014

SEARS Roebuck kit houses. Just one more reason to love Wyoming, Ohio. It’s loaded with them! And if you’ve ever wanted to own one, you may just get lucky in Wyoming.

Some of the SEARS house homeowners in Wyoming may remember the lecture Beatrice Lask gave at the Historic Society back in the early 90′s (available on DVD at the Wyoming Historical Society office at 800 Oak Ave.). At that time she was in the process of surveying Cincinnati for SEARS houses and is the person responsible for identifying 500 of them (with no help from the internet). Her work was done as part of her masters degree program at the University of Cincinnati and was the basis for her thesis. Her complete thesis is on file at the University of Cincinnati.

The Cincinnati Enquirer published an article on SEARS homes which mentions Ms. Lask’s work titled SEARS Homes Come Into Their Own by Denny Lee/ The New York Times and Joy Kraft / The Cincinnati Enquirer. Because of this article I recently had the pleasure of meeting Beatrice and discussing her SEARS project at some length.

The following photos are of homes believed to be genuine SEARS homes in Wyoming, including 5 four family apartment buildings.

Sears Josephine with second story added- 130 Burns Ave

Sears Matoka- 23 Central Terrace

Sears Argyle – 426 Burns Ave

Sears Americus – 1028 Burns Ave

Sears Vallonia – 1099 Burns Ave

Sears Marina – 228 Crescent Ave

Sears Hathaway – 300 Crescent Ave

Sears Vallonia – 51 Euclid Ave

Sears Hamilton – 59 Euclid Ave

Sears Argyle – 18 Allen Ave

Sears Argyle – 24 Allen Ave

Sears Starlight – 38 North Ave

Sears Hazelton – 1522 Maple Ave

Sears Josephine – 1529 Maple Ave

Sears Avondale – 19 W Mills Ave

Sears Argyle – 5 Walnut Ave

Sears Ardara/Crescent combination model- 220 Grove Ave

Sears Alhambra – 20 Central Terrace

Sears Avalon – 196 Fleming Ave

Sears Elsmore – 1540 Maple Ave

Sears Berwyn – 151 Bonham Ave

Sears Glyndon – 709 Oak Ave

Sears Wabash – 717 Oak Ave

Sears Cornell – 424 Pendery Ave

Sears Brookside – 1041 Burns Ave

Sears Atlanta – 414 Poplar Ave

Sears Atlanta – 35 Sherry Ave

Sears Atlanta – 1114 Springfield Pike

Sears Atlanta – 1056 Springfield Pike

Notes about this post:    Armed with the list of houses from the Bea Lask thesis. Laraine headed to the Wyoming area of Cincinnati and photographed a whole lot of Sears Houses.   Some were unidentified at the time she got her pictures, like The Brookside, but were later ID’d.

 

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