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Sears Ardara in my 1928 Sears Modern Homes catalog
The Ardara was in the catalogs from 1919-1930 |
In the listings in Leesburg, Virginia, right now, is a beautiful example of an (expanded) Sears Ardara model. The home has had a huge, 2-story addition added to the back, but it has been done tastefully, and in keeping with the original Craftsman design style of the original house. Today's blog post is simply going to show you the MLS photos of this house... it's a beauty.
I've previously written about this model, as have other researchers.
In 2018, I wrote about a Feme Sole Trader, who, along with her son, purchased a Sears
Ardara kit from Sears, with a mortgage from Sears, in Rockledge, Pennsylvania. In that blog post, I showed several other examples that we have on our list, and I also explained what the legal term
feme sole trader, means. Cindy Catanzaro wrote about this model, and showed several Ohio examples, in
this 2016 post on her blog, Sears Houses In Ohio. I showed my own photos of an
Ardara in Elmhurst, Illinois, in
this 2023 blog post of mine, about a trip I took to the Chicago area, to visit Chicago, and to see a whole bunch of Sears houses around a few towns of Chicagoland.
You can see how the house follows the window layout of the Sears Ardara (though the front windows are replacements), and the obvious spot where the boxy 2-story addition begins:
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Sears Ardara with addition • 220 Queen St NE Leesburg VA |
Here is the original floor plan of this two-bedroom, one bath model, with additional little music room, that could be bought with or without an attached garage (a rarity for Sears):
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Sears Ardara floor plan in the 1928 Sears Modern Homes catalog
You can see the Ardara in the 1925 catalog online, here |
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real estate listing includes a floor plan for the house, which, of course, includes the area added on in the back:
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First floor layout of 220 Queen St NE Leesburg VA
You can see the second floor layout on the real estate listing. |
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| Side-by-side comparison of the Sears Ardara floor plan from the Sears Modern Homes catalog, and the original part of the house, as shown in the real estate listing. |
Inside the Sears Ardara In Leesburg, VirginiaLet's take a look inside!
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| The original living room area... great doorway, lots of sunlight coming in. |
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| The original living room area, with its many windows, looking into the original dining room area. |
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| The wonderful front door and big front window, entering right into the living room, showing, also, the little side room labeled as a music room, now used as a great little office space. |
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| The little side room labeled as a music room, now used as a great little office space. |
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| Another window! The little side room labeled as a music room, now used as a great little office space. That door is for a closet. |
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| Original living room space, looking into the original dining room space. |
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| If you look at the floor plan, you can see that this is the original space, looking from the dining room into the kitchen (doorway on the right), and into the hall and hall bathrom (on the left). |
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| The spacious (for a little house!) kitchen... still the original part of the house, looking up toward the dining room. |
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| Here, you are looking from the original space, the original kitchen area, into the new addition. |
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| This is the new addition, on the rear of the house. |
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| From the wonderful back yard, you can clearly see where the two-story addition comes in. |
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| Beautiful setting for this Sears Ardara, 220 Queen St NE Leesburg VA |
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