I was surfing the other day and I found this
advertisement for our house in the Sears 1936 catalog. Toni's grandfather Percy was a local builder in Wurtsboro and her grandmother was a real estate agent. Percy built my grandparent's house where my parents live today. He also built most of the other houses in Wurtsboro Hills.
So Percy ordered the plans and materials for our house from Sears. The cost was around $1,200.He used it to build our house in 1937 and at least one other in our town.He would just use the same plans over and over and he'd pick up the wood and materials where he could find them. We love our house, it has so many "Sears" conveniences like a built in ironing board, spice rack and a kitchen table that comes down from the wall. We added on to the house in 2006 but we tried to keep the integrity of the style.
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