“Can't beat free!”
"From 1908 to 1940, the Sears, Roebuck and Company sold more than 70,000 kit houses through the Sears Modern Home catalog. Much like buying furniture from IKEA, anyone could purchase a home (and a mortgage) through a mail order catalog, have pre-cut and fitted materials shipped to your door step and voila…you would have a home, with some assembly required. The Wellington Model from the Sears catalog, touting its massive stucco columns and artistic touches. Sears houses came in over 447 different housing styles, from elaborate multistory mansions to small vacation bungalows. Central heating, indoor plumbing, dry wall, asphalt shingles, and electricity were all new developments that Sears Homes incorporated in their homes. Suburbanites were drawn to this innovative and inexpensive option, dotting the neighborhoods of Arlington with Sears homes today (along with other, similar “kit houses”). On behalf of their client, Arlington-based architects Paola Lugli and Paola Amodeo, of the firm Paolasquare international, are offering a free Sears house at 3010 7th St. N. (near Pershing Drive in Lyon Park). The house, built in 1926, is a Wellington model Sears home. Originally priced at $1,998, this lot recently sold in September 2013 for over $750,000. However, the needs of the homeowner do not meet the constrictions of the current home. Rather than bulldoze this historic property, the homeowner is interested in giving it away for only the cost of moving the home." -Preservation Arlington Photo Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post/Getty Images
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