Hello,

I am a newbie here and I am wondering if anyone knows how or where I can find a bill of materials and/or Blueprint for the Sears Modern Home No. 167? I have also been told that this house was also known as "Maytown" but the floor plan and drawn image I have references it as Modern Home No. 167. I am also interested in the "Chelsea" items as well. Thanks!

I am also looking for the Modern House No. 303 image and floor plan if anyone has it in a digital format. Thanks!

Foxbrook78,

Welcome to the forum.

Actual blueprints or bills of material would be extremely hard to find, good luck with that. I'd keep an eye on eBay.

Where did you find the house No. 303 mentioned? I don't see it in my 'Houses by Mail' or on the Sears Archives.



Lauren

Hello! Thank you for responding and the welcome. I have attached a thumbnail of the No. 303 that I found on a website. It says if I click it, the image with a floor plan will enlarge. Sadly, it doesn't seem to work for me. Living in the western Massachusetts where there are many small hill towns with train tracks running through the villages, I asked my family about kit houses. My gram says that there are several houses that came "from Roebucks on trains" and remembers specifically one with "the gingerbread trim and turrets." There are several houses in this style around town. So, I have been sleuthing around the village when I am home from college looking for them. Many homes look to have crazy additions and a few are attached directly to slate roof barns. As a newbie, this is going to be tough.

Thanks for the ebay tip. I'll lurk there looking too.

I came across a home here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Well....It's gone now, I drove by the other day to see it and it is gone. But, I found that very same image you did and it does not enlarge. Tell me if the image I have attached is what you have also found? I think this home was, I emphasize WAS, a no 303. The posted image is so small it is hard to tell..........but I think it was! I would like to see yours as well.
Rachel in Tulsa Oklahoma

Here is a smaller size, I hope

Try sifting through this list of Antique homes from various old catalogs someone was nice enough to compile and share:

http://www.antiquehome.org/House-Plans/

It looks more like a Radford design to me. Take a look at the 109.

Lauren

What website did you find that thumbnail at?
The picture could have come from one of the books by Fred T.Hodgson. Some of the plans in
his books may have come from Radford but not sure. In any case it could be a Radford Home rather than Sears.

Also,Dover Publications has reprinted two books by George F.Barber, and it might be one of his houses. I plan to buy the latest one, since I have a reprint of the Cottage Souvenir No.2,
which i purchased from John Crosby Freeman, when he ran the American Life Foundation which reprinted old books and such.

I mention Fred T.Hodgson, because he wrote books about building and construction, and Sears used to sell his books.
Out in Cibolo,Tx, just two miles from me, is one of his houses, but i forget what the design was called. I think Antique Home has some plans from one of his books.

Hello Folks,
Welcome to all you new comers and we hope you continue coming back to look and learn about the Arts and Crafts Movement. Rikki, Lauren, Fred Zwick and myself are happy to serve you in any method we can as the information already provided. Here is a link you all might find interesting.

http://architecture.about.com/...ngalowplan-s-144.htm

Respectfully,

Ralph Jones