We compiled this list of nearly 100 authenticated Sears, Lewis and other historic mail-order homes on the initiative of and in cooperation with Historic Chevy Chase DC.

The list and map are the fruit of many years of research, and it continues to be a work in progress. We are always grateful for corrections, suggestions and additional information or tips (just use the form below or email us). For an interactive map 🗺 with photos and catalog pages for these homes, please click here. For front images of the homes, click on the 📷 symbol in each row.

Address	Model	Year	Authenticated via	Comments/MLS Photos or blog links	Original owner
3714 Livingston St NW	GVT No. 542	1922	Via deed/ mortgage record and permit;  “Van Tine (Gordon) Co.” named as “architect”	Blog post on the Livingston St Gordon-Van Tines     📷  Owner E. D. Tessier placed early 1920s newspaper ads identifying him as Gordon-Van Tine’s DC rep	Tessier, E. D. (builder: Teague, C. L. )
6015 33rd St NW	GVT No. 619	1925	Via building permit	📷	Crabtree, John H.
3718 Livingston St NW	GVT No. 707	1922	Via deed/ mortgage record and permit	Blog post on the Livingston St Gordon-Van Tines     📷	Tessier, E. D. (builder: Teague, C. L. )
5509 Chevy Chase Parkway NW	GVT No. 503 (No. 590 porch modifications)	1922	via building permits	📷	Dr. Sylvia Wilson (builder: Lloyd, W. Scott)
3910 Ingomar St NW	GVT No. 589	1921	via building permits	Likely built in 1922   📷
5904 Broad Branch Rd NW	Lewis “Arden”	1921	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	Massively modified (enclosed front porch; second floor added)     MLS photos of the home  📷	Lloyd, W. Scott
5709 Nevada Ave NW	Lewis “Ardmore”	1927	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	📷
3415 McKinley St NW	Lewis “Ardmore”	1925	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	📷
6209 Western Ave NW	Lewis “Ardmore”	1926	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	📷	Stella G. Gates
6132 30th St NW	Lewis “Ashland”	1926	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	📷	James A. Strawn
3734 Kanawha St NW	Lewis “Cambridge”	1921	Zepp testimonial – Washington Examiner	Architect entry left blank on historic permit 📷
3226 Morrison St NW	Lewis “Cambridge”	1925	Zepp mortgage/ Lewis as architect/Keystone Inc. as builder	Model w/ the “sewing room” upstairs (which was turned into a master bath), otherwise unaltered  📷
3925 Huntington St NW	Lewis “Cambridge”	1921	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	MLS marketing photos of the home     📷	Smith, J. Ernest (Builder: Lloyd, C. W.)
3718 Ingomar St NW	Lewis “Cheltenham”	1924	Zepp mortgage (and permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect)	📷
5622 32nd St NW	Lewis “Chevy Chase”	1919	Zepp testimonial house; Speiden & Speiden as architects	📷	Zepp, Guy S.
5717 33rd St NW	Lewis “Chevy Chase”	1918	Speiden & Speiden as filing architects  (show up in Zepp/Lewis houses from pre-Platshon years (1919/1920)	📷	Guy Zepp (Lewis rep.)
3904 Legation St NW	Lewis “Chevy Chase”	1919	Speiden & Speiden as filing architects (show up in Zepp/Lewis houses from pre-Platshon years (1919/1920)	On permit 30 x 46 deep like the other three in the neighborhood. Same owner/builder (Gordon, James. H.) as 3404 Morrison (Lewis “Hollywood”) and 3604 Morrison, which name Speiden AND Lewis as architect.     📷
3506 McKinley St NW (original house number 3614)	Lewis “Chevy Chase”	1919	Speiden & Speiden as architects; see above	On permit 30 x 46 deep. Same owner/builder (Gordon, James. H.) as 3404 Morrison (Lewis “Hollywood”) and 3604 Morrison, which name Speiden AND Lewis as architect. 📷
3212 Northampton St NW	Lewis “Chevy Chase”	1919	Speiden & Speiden as architects, Zepp as owner/builder	On permit 30 x 46 deep like the others.	Guy S. Zepp
3207 Rittenhouse St NW	Lewis “Coronado”	1923	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	Per permit, 24×24 = Coronado. Fenestration and front porch modifications 📷	Anna N. Wagonseller
3808/3810 Legation St NW	Lewis “Harrison”	1926	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	📷  📷
6310 33rd St NW	Lewis “Hawthorne”	1924	Guy Zepp/Gordon Ricketts mortgage/Platshon on permit	📷	Miss M.G. Burgess
3404 Morrison St NW	Lewis “Hollywood”	1920	Zepp testimonial house (permit names Lewis AND Speiden & Speiden as architect)	📷	Gordon, James H.
3380 Stuyvesant Pl NW	Lewis “Kenwood”	1925	Building permit	📷
5501 Nevada Ave NW	Lewis “Lancaster”	1921	Zepp testimonial house; Speiden & Speiden named as architect	📷
4120 Harrison St NW	Lewis “Lenox”	1922/ 1923	M. Platshon named on permit	📷	Van Vleck, Wm. C.
5505 33rd St NW	Lewis “Marengo”	1924	Guy Zepp/Gorden & Ricketts mortgage	Modification with 3 windows in front. Double BR might be original. Lewis Foreclosure in 1927 📷
5526 39th St NW	Lewis “Marengo”	1926	Mortgage. Also, building permits name “Lewis Mfg Co” as the “architect”	📷
3914 Military Rd NW	Lewis “Marlboro” (plan 2.)	1925	Permit	📷	W. P. Gilbert
3372 Stuyvesant Pl NW	Lewis “Oakwood”	1926	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	📷
5330 39th St NW	Lewis “Pembroke”	1925	Zepp mortgage	📷
3614 Military Rd NW	Lewis “Regal”	1923	Platshon	📷	Rowland C. Riddick
5800 32nd St NW	Lewis Mfg. “Roselawn”	1926	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	A simpler version of the Roselawn (called La Salle) was in the 1930s picked up by Lewis Liberty 📷	F. Hand
3510 Quesada St NW	Lewis “San Fernando”	1922	M. Platshon named as “architect”	📷
3518 Northampton St NW	Lewis “Shelbourne”	1923	Guy Zepp mortgage; marked lumber	Blog post on the Northampton Shelbourne     📷
3522 Northampton St NW	Lewis “Sherman”	1924	Lewis Mfg Co. and M. Platshon on permit	📷
3600 Rittenhouse St NW	Lewis “Standish”	1924	Lewis Mfg Co. named as architect in permit	With “Cambridge” door and “Marlboro” entry hood/brackets  📷	Shumaker, B. W.
5601 32nd St NW	Lewis “Winthrop”	1924	Guy Zepp mortgage/permit	📷	BonDurant, E. H.
3419 McKinley St NW	Lewis “Winthrop”	1925	Permit names Lewis Mfg. Co. as architect	📷	G.E. Yancey
3932 McKinley St NW	Lewis “Winthrop”	1924	Guy Zepp mortgage/permit	📷
3373 Runnymede Pl NW	Lewis Mfg. – unknown or custom model; possibly a copy of the Sears “Sunbeam”	1926	Permit names Lewis Mfg Co as architect	📷
6314 33rd St NW	Sears “No. 123”	1915	Permit	One of the earliest official (i.e., named in building permits) examples of Sears houses in DC 📷	Winthrop D. Foster
4205 Military Rd NW	Sears “Alhambra”	1925	Sears catalog testimonial; no architect or builder on permit	📷
3939 Legation St NW	Sears “Alhambra”	1927 (?)	Not authenticated; Permit missing in city archive	CMU construction! Compare to detail from earlier S&R catalogs (1913) 📷	Shaw, K. A
5457 Nevada Ave NW	Sears “Americus”	1926	mortgage + permit	📷	Riffenburg, H. B.
5616 Nevada Ave NW	Sears “Americus”	1926	mortgage	📷
5615 33rd St NW	Sears “Americus”	1923	mortgage	📷
3500 Morrison St NW	Sears “Americus”	1928	mortgage	📷
3502 (formerly 3612) McKinley St NW	Sears “Avalon”	1922	Not authenticated. Speiden & Speiden–firm known to file/modify kit house plans for local Lewis office in earlier years	Per permit 24 x 48 deep; consistent with Avalon. Chimney in front and trim modifications. Year in tax record is wrong. 📷	G. C. Roe
5450 33rd Street St NW	Sears “Ardara”	1923	mortgage	📷
5416 Nevada Ave NW	Sears “Barrington”	1930	mortgage	📷
2908 Rittenhouse St NW	Sears “Barrington”	1930	Sears & Roebuck named as architect in permit; Sears mortgage	Blog Post with lots of detail on the Rittenhouse Barrington ‎     📷
3416 Patterson St NW	Sears “Barrington-Brockwood” hybrid	1931	Sears mortgage, Sears named as builder	📷
3217 Oliver St NW	Sears “Bedford”	1926	Permit	Original owner, architect and builder are the same person on permit. Model wasn’t offered until 1927 📷	Caywood, S. W.
6157 30th St NW	Sears “Belmont” (brick version of the “Lynnhaven”	1933	Permit—Sears & Roebuck named as “builder”	📷	Haines, Wm. C. (filing architect: Conner, E. J.)
5900 32nd St NW	Sears “Crescent”	1926	Permit—Sears & Roebuck named as “architect”	📷
3428 Oliver St NW	Sears “Fullerton”	1927	“S.W. Phelps submitted plans on behalf of Sears”	📷	Nellie S. Morgan
3110 Rittenhouse Rd NW	Sears “Galewood”	1932	Sears Roebuck as “builder” on permit	📷
3617 Quesada St NW	Sears “Honor”	1922	Sears mortgage record	📷
3919 Harrison St NW	Sears “Kilbourne”	1925	mortgage	📷
5400 Nevada St NW	Sears “Kilbourne”	1925	mortgage	📷
3215 Oliver St NW	Sears “Kilbourne”	1926	Sears mortgage record. Sears Roebuck & Co. also named as “architect” in permit.	📷
3401 Patterson St NW	Sears “Lewiston”	1929	Permit—Sears & Roebuck named as “architect”	📷	P.H. Girouard
3640 Kanawha St NW	Sears “Lewiston”	1931	Permit—Sears & Roebuck named as “architect”	📷
3907 Huntington St NW	Sears “Martha Washington”	1924	Permit—Sears & Roebuck named as “architect”	📷	Schreiber, Herman V.
3920 Military Rd NW	Sears “Lexington”	1926	Permit—Sears & Roebuck named as “architect”	Customized with a “Martha Washington” entry and windows, as well as numerous interior details that were borrowed from the (somewhat smaller Martha Washington model). 📷	McMahon, J. ( Builder: Lightbown, B. L.)
3700 Military Rd NW	Sears “Martha Washington”	1925	stamped lumber, etc; original Sears blueprints	Blog post: A Case In Point For Chevy Chase Kit House History     📷	Earl and Carrie Steer
6233 30th St NW	Sears “Martha Washington”	1924	Sears mortgage/and  Sears & Roebuck named as “architect” in permit	📷	Oscar D. Allen
3842 Legation St NW	Sears “Maywood”*	1925	Permit names R.C Hunter and Keystone Co. as architect and Keystone Co. as builder	📷 *The 5 suspected Chevy Chase “Maywoods”, while perfect matches to the Sears catalog model, have so far not been authenticated. None of them mentions Sears Roebuck in the historic building permits. They were all built in the same year by a local builder, Keystone Co., before Sears started carrying the model (in 1926). The design (by New York architects R.C. Hunter & Bros.) was also published as the “Cedars” by the National Home Builders Society in 1923:  National Home Builders Society in 1923: (https://archive.org/stream/homebuilder00natirich#page/86/mode/2up  Hunter’s original design showed different dormers. The 5 Chevy Chase houses on the other hand are consistent with the flat top/shed dormers that Sears adopted.
5517 Broad Branch Rd NW	Sears “Maywood”*	1925	Keystone Co. as builder, but has a different “architect”	MLS pictures 📷 *See remarks for 3842 Legation St NW
3306 Quesada St NW	Sears “Maywood”*	1926	Permit names “Standard Builders” as builder and R.C. Hunter & Bro. as architect	*See remarks for 3842 Legation St NW  📷
3510 Morrison St NW	Sears “Maywood”*	1925	Permit names  R.C. Hunter & Bro. as architect and “Columbia Realty & Construction Co.” as builder	📷 *See remarks for 3842 Legation St NW
3661 Morrison St NW	Sears “Maywood”*	1925	Permit names “Standard Builders” as builder and R.C. Hunter & Bro. as architect	*See remarks for 3842 Legation St NW  📷
3360 Runnymede Pl NW	Sears “Newcastle”	1932	Permit names Sears Roebuck as “builder”	Permit states construction as “brick” rather than “frame” with face brick (!)  📷
3200 McKinley St NW	Sears “Oak Park”	1927/ 1928	Sears mortgage	📷
3614 Quesada St NW	Sears “Priscilla”	1926	Sears mortgage record	📷
6321 33rd Street NW	Sears “Priscilla”	1927	Sears mortgage	📷
4114 Ingomar St NW	Sears “Puritan”	1923	Sears catalog testimonial	📷
5910 32nd St NW	Sears “Puritan”	1924	Sears mortgage	📷
5245 42nd St NW	Sears “Puritan”	1926	Permit—Sears & Roebuck named as “architect”	📷	Powers, John T.
3409 Patterson St NW	Sears “Rembrandt”	1925	Via mortgage record	Permit only names local architect and builder  📷
5447 Chevy Chase Pkwy	Sears “Rembrandt”	1925	Permit—Sears & Roebuck named as “architect”	📷
3207 Oliver St NW	Sears “Rembrandt”	1928	Sears mortgage	📷
3431 Oliver St NW	Sears “Rembrandt”	1925	Sears mortgage	Martha Washington entry way!  📷
5432 31st St NW	Sears “Rockford”	1929	mortgage	📷
6206 Broad Branch Rd NW	Sears “Rodessa”	1926	Permit—Sears & Roebuck named as “architect”	📷	Herbert J. Buell
5538 Nevada Ave NW	Sears “Solace” (“Rodessa”-style entry)	1926	same “architect”  (Phelps) as the Fullerton on Nevada and other Sears houses	Phelps has been noted on some permits to file “on behalf of” Sears.  📷
5620 33rd St NW	Sears “Van Jean”	1930	mortgage AND permit	📷
6019 Western Ave NW	Sears “Verona”	1923	Permit; original detail	📷	Wolfe, Frank S.
5612 33rd St NW	Sears “Walton”	1925	stamped lumber	📷
6350 31st St NW	Sears “Walton”	1923	Sears mortgage; permit also names Sears Roebuck	📷	Emil Critchfield
6207 Broad Branch Rd NW	Sears “Walton”	1924	Sears mortgage	📷
5445 Chevy Chase Pkwy NW	Sears “Westly”	1925	mortgage	📷
5710 Broad Branch Rd NW	Sears  “Westly”	1926	Sears mortgage	Blog post about the Broad Branch Westly’s history     📷
5467 Nevada Ave NW	Sears “Woodland”	1926	mortgage	📷
3323 Upland Ter NW	Sears “Woodland”	1925	Sears mortgage	📷
3111 Oliver St NW	Sears “Woodland”	1926	Sears mortgage (tax 2312/41)	📷
5713 33rd Street NW	Sears “Woodland”	1925	Permit—Sears & Roebuck named as “architect”	📷	Read, William T.
3819 Legation St NW	Sterling “San Carlos”	1919	International Mill and Timber (i.e., Sterling) listed as architect	📷	Hastings, E. C.

For an interactive map  with photos and catalog pages for these homes, please click here.

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