DC House Smarts

Kit House of the Week

The authors of this blog, and many of our readers, share a passion for house history and historic kit homes. (Scroll down for a slideshow with several dozen Sears kit houses in the DC area.)

We will post a more comprehensive introduction into this fascinating topic here in the near future. For now, you can find a regularly updated selection of previous posts and articles here as well as here.

Quite often, we find that a supposed or reported kit house actually did not come from a kit. Read Marcie’s virgin post on the Kit House That Wasn’t here.

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February 8th, 2013, Kit House Of The Week, a Sears “Woodland” in Silver Spring for sale at $699,900

September 21st, 2012, Kit House Of The Week, a Sears “Colchester” for sale in Silver Spring

August 11th, Kit House Of The Week, a Sears “Martha Washington” for Sale in Shepherd Park

July 15th, 2012, Kit House Of The Week, a Sears “Hamilton” in close-in Silver Spring for sale at $475,000

June 25, 2012, Kit House Of The Week, a Sears “Cornell” or “Haven” in Arlington for sale at $750,000.

April 20, 2012, Kit House Of The Week, a Sears “Maywood” in Chevy Chase, DC, for sale at $899,000

April 3, 2012, Kit House Of The Week, a Sears “Winona” in Arlington, Virginia, for sale at $649,000

March 29, 2012, Kit House Of The Week, a Sears “Brookwood,” and an update on last week’s Sears house

March 21, 2012, Kit House Of The Week: 1923 Sears “Vallonia” for Sale in College Park

March 9, 2012, On the History of Mail-Order homes in Washington, DC (with link to Rosemary Thornton’s Sears House blog)

March 8, 2012, Kit House Of The Week: Adorable 1923 Sears “Uriel” in close-in Silver Spring for sale at $425,000

February Lesson On Lewis Kit Homes

January 27, 2012, Kit House Of The Week: A 1928 Sears “Americus” in Chevy Chase, DC

January 15, 2012, Kit House Of The Week: Sears “Honor” in Shepherd Park, DC

December 22, 2011, Kit House Of The Week: Vampire Of Homes–Sears “Fullerton” in Brookland, DC

December 12, 2011, When Men Were Still Handy

December 10, 2011, The House In The Post

(If you own (or live in) a Sears house or other mail-order/ kit house, please click here)

Examples of kit houses in and around DC: