Sears Glen Falls in Kennett Square, PA (& lookalikes)

Authenticated Sears Glen Falls • 727 W Baltimore Pike, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Sears Glen Falls on the cover of
the 1926 Sears Special Supplement,
the first year that it was offered.

I am absolutely delighted to be writing about this gorgeous, authenticated Sears Glen Falls in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. We have 43 examples of the Glen Falls on our national list of Sears Houses in the U.S., and only 12 of those are authenticated. 

Houses that look like the Glen Falls are often difficult for us to tie to Sears, because there were other companies that made very similar models, and so we have to be able to see the rear of the house, and the interior... even then, we sometimes can't be certain that the house isn't its almost exact plan-book lookalike, the National Home Builder Brockton model (in their 1923 catalog). While other "lookalikes" are very similar, the HB Brockton model has only one tiny difference in design from the Sears Glen Falls... in fact, we believe that its architect is the same architect who designed the Sears Glen Falls. I'll explain all of that in a bit.

Who Lived In This Glen Falls ?

In 2021, I was doing historic mortgage research in Chester County, Pennsylvania, looking for houses mortgaged through Sears. As I'm sure that I've explained before, this can be a challenging process, because once we find a mortgage linked to a Sears trustee, we are only given a buyer's name, and a legal description of the lot... not an address. Armed with that information, the real hunt begins. If we're lucky, we're given a subdivision name and lot number. If we're really lucky, the county also has plat maps available online to find where that subdivision is (and we hope that the town hasn't changed all of the names of the streets, or bulldozed the neighborhood for a mall or something like that). But, especially in areas that were more rural back in the 1920s and 1930s, we are often given just a wordy description that is almost impossible to pinpoint on a current map.... wording like, "three chain lengths from Jedediah Johnson's oak tree" or, "on a new street [with no name]". Or, they will just mention the street... like "on Baltimore Pike"... which is a road that is maybe miles and miles and miles long, and full of foliage on each side of the road, making it a very challenging task to "Google drive" down the street to look for the house. And, if we try searching the buyer's name using the U.S. Census records of the era, we often find that street names are given, but no house numbers... or, in smaller towns, not even a street name is given. Or, if the buyer bought the house just after 1930, we often find that they lost the house during the depression, so we don't find them still listed in the area in the 1940 Census. So, when we find a batch of mortgages, there are always some that end up in the "did not find" folder. 

Here's the legal description that I got for this very house on Baltimore Pike.

As it turns out, this house was one of those "not found" mortgages! But, earlier this summer, I received an email from the woman who was in contract to buy this house. She was being told that it was a Sears house, and wanted to know if we could verify that. Through a series of new searches on the deeds for this address, going backwards from the most current deed, I saw a name that seemed to ring a bell. So, I checked my "did not find" folder for Chester County PA, and lo and behold, there was a 1927 mortgage for that name... this was one of my "lost mortgages" as we call them. Wow! I was absolutely tickled!

The real estate listing provides some beautiful photos of the setting of this Glen Falls.

You can see from this image from the listing, how well this house is nestled away among the trees.

In the legal description, you see the line about the land being a certain distance from, "other lands of Anita Musischi". Well, Anita Musischi and her husband, Gaetano Musischi, were two of the three names of the mortgagors for this house. The third name was Gelsomino Raimato (Gelsomino later begins to go by James Gelsomino Raimato, then James G. Raimato). James Gelsomino Raimato had married the daughter of Anita and Gaetano Musischi (Mafalda Musischi Raimato), in 1924. The mortgage was taken out in 1927.  So, either Anita and Gaetano also planned to live in the house, with Mafalda and James Gelsomino Raimato, or they were gifting a portion of the house cost to the young couple. Looking at 1940 U.S. Census data, though, Anita Musischi is listed as living with Mafalda and J. G. Raimato, so I imagine that they entered into this as a joint financial venture for all four of them living in this sizeable house.

Top section of the 1927 mortgage with Sears, for the purchase of this Glen Falls kit. William C. Reed is the Sears trustee who signed mortgages in this part of the country, between 1922 and 1929 (source).

Anita Carapucci Musischi and Gaetano Musischi, were both born in Italy. They were married in West Grove, Pennsylvania, on August 5, 1907. 

Marriage certificate for Anita Carapucci and Gaetano Musischi.

Their grave stones included these photos:

Gravestone portrait photos of Anita Musischi and Gaetano Musischi.

Gravestones of Anita C. Musischi and Gaetano Musischi
from Saint Patrick Roman Catholic Cemetery in Kennett Square, PA
(source: Anita on Find-A-Grave, Gaetano on Find-A-Grave)

Mafalda Musischi and (James) Gelsomino Raimato, were married in 1924, when Mafalda was only 16 years old, and (James) Gelsomino was 24. He was also born in Italy, but she had been born in West Grove, Pennsylvania. 

Marriage certificate for 1924 marriage of Mafalda Musischi and Gelsomino Raimato.

They were buried in the same cemetery as were Mafalda's parents, Anita and Gaetano Musischi. These portraits are on their gravestones:

Gravestone portrait photos of Mafalda Musischi Raimato and James Gelsomino Raimato.

Gravestones of Mafalda Musischi Raimato and James Gelsomino Raimato
from Saint Patrick Roman Catholic Cemetery in Kennett Square, PA
(source: Mafalda on Find-A-Grave, James Gelsomino on Find-A-Grave)

By the way, the 1940 U.S. Census lists James (Gelsomino) Raimato's profession as Stone Mason. That makes sense... we almost never see Sears houses in stone. Usually, any brick or stone exterior on any Sears house, is a one-layer-thick veneer, over the pre-cut wood framing lumber that comes with the Sears kit of building supplies. I imagine that's the case here, but the stone is beautifully done, and covers all four sides of the house. The $12,600 mortgage for the house, is unusually high, which probably means that the cost of the stone greatly increased the purchase price (and, remember, Sears did not ship masonry supplies, so brick and stone would always have been supplied by a local source, arranged through Sears).

1940 U. S. Census summary for James Gelsomino Raimato, mentioning that his occupation was stone mason. (And, by the way, his age is incorrect here. He was 42 in 1940. It was Mafalda who gave the information on the census.)

In 1947, Mafalda and James sold the Kennett Square Glen Falls to a widower, Bernardo Cordivano.

Deed mention of 1947 sale of the Glen Falls to Bernardo Cordivano.

Interestingly, the 2007 obituary of Bernardo Cordivano Jr., mentions that his father, the Bernardo Cordivano who bought the Glen Falls in 1947 from the Raimatos, "...built an empire in the mushroom industry as the first Italian to grow mushrooms in the United States." And, I recall that the profession of Gaetano Musischi, was given as "mushroom grower" in the 1950 U.S. Census, and also in his 1953 obituary.

Snippet from the 2007 obituary of Bernardo Cordivano Jr.
Wilmington Delaware News Journal, Feb 28, 2007, p. 14

Someone from the Cordivano family (Fiore Lorraine Cordivano) sold the house in 1971, to Richard E and Patrica A Swift. They remained in the house until its sale in 2016, to Jonathan and Kirsten Davis, who sold the house in 2021 to Lee and Brittany Sausen. The most recent sale just occurred, on August 18, 2025.

Sales of the Kennett Square Glen Falls, from 1971 through 2021.

The Sears Glen Falls In the Catalogs

The Glen Falls was first shown by Sears in a 1926  Special Supplement Honor Bilt Modern Homes catalog, and, in fact, was the house depicted on the cover of that short catalog. It was then used on the cover of the new 1927 Sears Honor Bilt Modern Homes catalog, and remained as an offering through the 1930 catalog:

Thanks to our friend at Daily Bungalow, for uploading this catalog on their Flickr page, and then again, on Internet Archive.

Here is the cover of the 1927 Sears Honor Bilt Modern Homes catalog.
I own this catalog, but don't have it scanned. Thanks to the owner of this Flickr page for making it available.

Our small research group works well together. Our core group has been at this together since about 2014, with several main members having started a few years before that. We learn from each other, and we share what we learn with each other. It was in that way that we eventually pinned down some important specifics about the Sears Glen Falls, which help us to distinguish it from the numerous similar models ("lookalikes") from other kit and non-kit [plan-book] companies:

David S. Betcone, the architect, and the 1923 Homebuilders Plan Book: A few years back, researcher Cindy Catanzaro (who really introduced me to Sears house searching, in every way) came upon a 1923 Homebuilders plan book catalog, put out by the National Homebuilders Institute. In it, she recognized a slew of "lookalikes" to models that Sears offered, only after that year. In fact... she realized that the 15 new models that Sears introduced in that 1926 Sears Special Supplement catalog (among them, the Glen Falls), were all first offered as almost-exactly-the-same models in this plans-only book. Here is how she introduced our group to this plan book, and its tie to David S. Betcone, whom we know to be the architect of the Sears Glen Falls model:

Cindy Catanazro explains the 1923 Homebuilders catalog offerings tie to Sears architect David S Betcone

In this era of the 19-teens through 1930s, the usual method of building a home, was NOT buying a kit house. Kit houses only made up about 2% (at most) of houses built in this era. Instead, the usual method was to work with a local contractor and a local lumber yard, picking out a house design from one of these catalogs/booklets that we call plan books, and then, after purchasing the blueprints, leaving everything up to the local contractor and lumber yard for buying all of the supplies and building the house. So, if a model offered by Sears was also offered, in some very similar form, in a plan book, we know that when we find an example on a street somewhere in some little American neighborhood, it's absolutely possible that the house is not the Sears kit... unless there is something that was changed in the design of the house, that we can see from the exterior (such as the number or layout of windows on one of the sides-- for example, the Sears Montrose model, also offered in that 1926 special supplement, was seen in the 1923 HB plan book, but there is a front-window difference... I explain that in this blog post about the Sears Montrose). But, with the Glen Falls and HB Brockton, there is absolutely no clue from the exterior, as to whether the house is the Sears kit, or a plan-book, locally-supplied version.  Take a look at how these two houses were shown in their respective catalogs... it's clear that Betcone's original drawing for this design, that Homebuilders used in their plan-book catalog, is the exact same drawing, reproduced in the Sears catalog:

David Betcone's BROCKTON plan-book design, offered in 1923 through Homebuilders catalog, and his GLEN FALLS kit design model offered for the first time by Sears, in 1926. 

We are not 100% certain of the process that all of these companies used, when acquiring new designs for their catalogs and plan books. Our best understanding is that there was a way to license the use of a design, directly from the architect. We also understand that when an architect was hired by Sears to work for them--such as the case of David S. Betcone, who was hired by Sears in 1925 and became their chief architect-- his previous designs could then be offered by Sears, as long as some design changes were made... even just the smallest of design changes, like adding a hall closet, or even, as in the case of the Brockton vs Glen Falls, just changing the access of the entry vestibule coat closet. Take a look at this comparison of the first floor design of Betcone's 1923 HB Brockton, vs the 1926 Sears Glen Falls ... the ONLY difference you'll find, is the placement of the entry door into that front entry coat closet:

The first floor design of Betcone's 1923 HB Brockton, vs the 1926 Sears Glen Falls
(click to enlarge)

Here is that key difference of the location of the coat closet entry door, on the Sears Glen Falls, as shown in the real estate listing for a Sears Glen Falls at 489 Highland Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey. We are confident about this one -- it also has Sears Narcissus door handle hardware, and that is the Sears colonial newel at the base of the staircase.

The rear of the Glen Falls should show four windows along the second floor, and, on the first floor, should show this bank of four windows on the back wall of the sun porch (with a section of roof above them), another set of several windows (for the back wall of the den), and then a wide bumped-out section (with roofing over it) that houses the back staircase of the house. This section should have a single window, and then an exterior door. The 1927 catalog images for the Glen Falls, include a drawing of what the back should look like. Here is that drawing, shared with us by researcher Andrew Mutch (Kit House Hunters), next to the rear view of this beautiful Glen Falls in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania:

Expected rear view of the Sears Glen Falls

So, if someone writes to us about a house they think is a Glen Falls, or we see one in a real estate listing that seems to match up on all of the sides, we still can't call it a Sears house, until or unless we see something that clinches the deal for us... like Sears-only La Tosca design door handle hardware, such as in a Sears Glen Falls in Park Ridge, New Jersey:

A genuine Sears Glen Falls model, in Park Ridge, New Jersey (source)

Among the photos in that listing, were several interior doors that had La Tosca design door handle hardware, and we have only ever seen that offered by Sears (there was also a Sears-only design phone nook), so we knew this must be a genuine Sears Glen Falls, and not the earlier HB Brockton lookalike:

Sears La Tosca design was only offered by Sears, and it is found on several doors that we were able to see in the most recent real estate listing for this Glen Falls model in Park Ridge, NJ.

Homeowners once wrote to us about another beautiful Glen Falls-style house, this one in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It seemed to be a spot-on match for the Sears model, but... local records said that it was built in 1923. Well... local build-year records are very (very!) often incorrect, so we couldn't go by that. But, the homeowners showed us a photo of a note that they had found by the paper hangers who had worked on this beautiful house in... 1924. That made it clear that this could not be the Glen Falls kit from Sears, since it wasn't offered by Sears until 1926. There was also a staircase newel that we knew was not of a style that Sears offered, and all of the door handle hardware that we could see, was not what we usually see offered in Sears houses (and definitely no La Tosca). 

This is a gorgeous house, but it is not a Sears Glen Falls. It is most likely a Home Builders Brockton model, as no other "lookalike" that we're aware of, is as close of a match to the Glen Falls.

Homeowners found this note, during renovations, and shared it with us.
This is also shown in the real estate listing.

This beautiful staircase newel is also shown among the photos in the real estate listing, and it is not a design that Sears offered.

Other Lookalike Models Similar to the Sears Glen Falls

Homebuilders continued to offer a Glen Falls /Brockton style house, after 1923, after they no longer had access to offer Betcone's design, but the newer offering had some major design changes (it's smaller, and note where the main staircase is... it's against the wall on the living room side of the house, whereas the Glen Falls and Brockton have that staircase against the wall on the dining room side of the house), and was offered under two different names, over two different years: The Abbott, in 1926, and The Crown, in 1927. I don't believe that we see Homebuilders offering a similar design, after that... there's definitely not one in their 1928 catalog.:

(Source: this helpful Flickr page of 'clones' for many Sears models)

(Source: this helpful Flickr page of 'clones' for many Sears models)

But, that's not all! Let's back up a few years... Cindy Catanzaro also came across a 1921 offering of a lookalike to this Glen Falls / Brockton style house, shown in Keith's Magazine. I don't think that we have a floor plan image for this house, but we suspect that it is David Betcone's design. We know that David Betcone first worked for Aladdin Homes, probably in the early 19-teens, and I read (and I can't remember where), that he then worked independently, selling his designs on his own, through various resources (such as Homebuilders catalog, for example). I would imagine that this was one of those resources, since this is after his time with Aladdin, and before his time with Sears:

Keith's Magazine offered a Glen Falls/ Brockton style house in 1921. This may well have been David Betcone's design.

And... we're not through yet! Even earlier, in their 1920 plan book of designs, National Plan Service offered a Glen Falls style house (six years before the Glen Falls was offered by Sears, remember) among their offerings, and it is not like Betcone's Glen Falls or Brockton design... nor is it a good match for the 1926 Abbott / 1927 Crown, however... who knows who designed what, in all of this:

The 1920 offering by National Plan Service, Design 710-B, is not a floor-plan match for the Glen Falls, nor the Brockton, nor the Abbott/Crown designs. Thanks to Daily Bungalow for this scan (here).

Skipping ahead to 1924--another kit-house lookalike to the Sears Glen Falls: Lewis Homes, a Bay City, Michigan kit-house company, offered The Vernon kit-house model, beginning in their 1924 catalog. It was while I was writing this 2016 blog post about Lewis Homes houses found in Syracuse, New York, that I really came to put the date of the Sears Glen Falls into perspective... because one of the houses that was included in that post, was a Lewis Homes Vernon, advertised in newspapers in 1924. So, clearly, we know that the Vernon pre-dates the Sears Glen Falls, even though, once again, the front view of the exterior looks just like the Sears Glen Falls. 

The Lewis Homes Vernon, first offered in their 1924 catalog.

If you compare the first-floor layout of the Lewis Vernon, to the Sears Glen Falls and the HB Brockton, you'll see that it is most like the Brockton (door into vestibule closet location)... the major difference we see is just the treatment of the staircase in the back of the house, behind the kitchen. The Vernon is not like Homebuilders' 1926 Abbott or 1927 Crown.

I haven't even shown the second-floor plan of the Sears Glen Falls or HB Brockton, but here is the Glen Falls second floor compared to the Lewis Vernon's second floor...almost exactly the same, except for very small design changes, that I've pointed out in yellow:

The second floor is almost exactly the same, between these two models.
You can see the Homebuilders Brockton model's floor plans, here, and you'll see that the second floor is an exact match to the Sears Glen Falls. 

Here's the interesting thing... David S. Betcone worked for Aladdin Homes in the 19-teens, as I mentioned earlier. Lewis Homes and Aladdin Homes were both based in Bay City, Michigan, and Lewis Homes was the manufacturer of Aladdin's kits, until about 1914 (my source for this is information is found here). We haven't connected David Betcone to Lewis Homes, directly, but it is rather coincidental that he worked for Aladdin in the time frame when they were connected to Lewis, and that we know that he was shopping his designs around in the interim, after Aladdin and before Sears. I think it's likely that he is the architect of the pre-cut kit home that Lewis offered in 1924 as the Vernon, the year after Betcone's similar design was offered in Homebuilders plan book. But, there is no proof of that. It's just me connecting some dots, to come to that conclusion.

This was such a popular design, that other companies, too, offered versions. Standard Homes, a plans-only company, and Harris Homes, another pre-cut kit company based in Chicago, offered versions:

Standard Homes plan-book company, offered this Glen Falls style house, the Lexington model, shown in this 1928 plan book. At 37 X 32 feet, it's closer to the HB Abbot/Crown designs, than it is to the Glen Falls/Brockton/Vernon designs.

Harris Homes offered their Stockton plan-cut model, whose floor plan I've never seen, but the description says that it is 38 X 26, which is significantly smaller than the Glen Falls/Brockton design, which is 46 feet wide, and 32 feet deep:

Harris Homes STOCKTON model, much smaller than the Glen Falls/Brockton design, and the same size as the Homebuilders Abbott/Crown design. (Image Source)

Let's Take A Look Inside

Here we go... since we rarely get a look inside an authenticated Sears Glen Falls, I'm going to show most of the real estate photos.

This is an important view when we get to see the interior of a Glen Falls style house. This main staircase should always be against this wall, on the dining room side of the house. The living room is on the other side of the entry hall. The HB Brockton is just like this, too, but the later plans-only designs of the HB Abbot and HB Crown, have the staircase against the side wall of the living room.

The catalogs also show a full page of "The Glen Falls - Interiors", as they did for several other models. 
This one also shows the staircase, with the short hall next to it, with a doorway to back den.

Sears Colonial Design staircase, banister, and newel. Now... look at this... this view shows the access to the vestibule's coat closet being from inside the entry vestibule! That's where it should be for the HB Brockton... for Sears Glen Falls, it should be entered from where that mirror and table are. I bet that there is now a powder room in that space, and they changed the access door to accommodate that. 

Sears Colonial Design elements, such as this staircase and colonial banister and newel, were first offered in the early mid-1920s.

The Colonial design staircase and staircase newel were introduced some time in the mid-1920s. This is from the 1929 Sears Building Supplies catalog (I don't have access to any Sears building supplies catalogs after 1920 and before 1929.)

Living room view, just as it is shown for the Glen Falls in the catalog.
That set of French doors opens to lead to the back sun porch.

From my 1928 Sears Modern Homes catalog (not available online). That's the Sears Colonial design fireplace surround.

Sears Colonial design fireplace surround

View of the living room looking toward the pair of French doors that we see in the front of a Glen Falls, leading out to a wide front porch space (now enclosed, on this Glen Falls).

Here is that front porch that we see through the French doors of the living room.

This is the back sun porch room, in the back of the house (where the rear view shows this bank of four windows), behind the living room.

They've turned the small back den room into an office and mud room. 

This back door in the den-turned-office/mudroom is a change to the original design (should normally be just two windows, I believe.

Here's that back door and window from the den/mudroom/office, next to that bank of four windows on the back wall of the back sun porch.

And, by the way, throughout the house, all of the interior doors have the Sears Narcissus brand door handle hardware, sometimes with the brass oval knob, and sometimes with the round floret/rosette style glass knob.

The dining alcove has a kitchen nook on one side, and a built-in buffet (Butler's Pantry style) on the other side, and, on the floor plan, is a space nestled in between the dining room and the kitchen.

Behind the letter H in the word KITCHEN, here on the floor plan, you see an open, black-rimmed square. That is the image we always see on a floor plan, for the placement of the furnace vent chimney. So, looking at the catalog view of the kitchen, we see two doors flanking the stove, on the wall perpendicular to the window wall. Those doors are to the... pantry? I think that is?, and then, on the right of the enclosed furnace vent chimney, the door to lead out to the back stoop of the house. 

In this house, the dining room space is being used as a cozy TV room. You can recognize its placement in the house, when you compare the views out, from the doorways, against the floor plan... there's the base of the staircase, out one doorway, and the doorway into the dining alcove space, where the built-in cabinet is supposed to be. You see cabinetry there, which is part of the kitchen, now (that alcove area must have been taken over to create the newer, larger kitchen space.

Now, for the kitchen. It has been enlarged to take over the "Dining Alcove" space:

See that small-ish window to the right of the stove area? That is the back wall window of the kitchen nook area that is shown on the floor plan. 

I have seen enough HGTV-type French TV shows (I watch about five of them) to recognize that this flooring appears to be traditional French Tomette tiles. They are a terracotta tile, usually in a hexagonal shape like this, usually a shade of orange-tinted red (kind of a brick color). They are traditional in the south of France, but definitely also regularly seen in original old flooring in some areas of many Paris apartments, including in the hallways between apartments. When I first saw this photo, I thought these must be original to the house, especially since James Gelsomino Raimato was a stone mason, but... that can't be the case, since this is the newer, enlarged kitchen space. But, you can still order Tomette terracotta tiles from places like François & Co., and other natural tile sellers.

Aix-en-Provence is a famous town in the south of France, just north of Marseille.

This information, and the Tomettes photo, above, are from the English-language Wikipedia article about Tomettes. There's a little more information, and an additional couple of photos, in the French Wikipedia article.

More views of the kitchen show that it appears that the Sears blueprints are framed, and on display on one of the interior walls of the kitchen (!!), and the back wall that would normally have the stove (according to the floor plan), has had a laundry space added.

Sears blueprints on display!

The doors perpendicular to the blueprints wall, is a space for a modern laundry area.

Upstairs, we have all of the four, spacious bedrooms. As you look at the photos, compare the window and closet placement to what is shown on the floor plan, to figure out which room is which. Note the single window on the wall of the house, behind the window seat that is at the top of the staircase, at the landing, remembering that in this space, in the Lewis Homes Vernon model, there are two windows there.

Sears Glen Falls second-floor layout. This is exactly the same as that of the HB Brockton plan book, and almost exactly the same as the Lewis Homes Vernon house kit model (comparison shown earlier in the post).

Here's the reading nook alcove at the top of the staircase.

Close-up view of that lovely reading nook space, with its single window, looking out to the back yard.

Here is the largest upstairs bedroom, the Master Bedroom-- in the front of the house, above the living room and the front porch-- which has its own bathroom! That's a very unusual design element in our Sears houses. Also, I'm noticing, now, that these two closets are not on the original floor plan. Those are original doors, though, so they must have been a customized addition, added when the buyers were ordering the kit (though small changes were sometimes made to Sears pre-cut houses, they were not made "on the fly" during building -- they would have been ordered, and charged for, during the buying process, and drawn into the blueprints by a Sears architect, such as we see in the blueprints for a customized Vallonia, in Rhode Island, that I wrote about several years ago). 

These two windows are the ones we see in the bigger of the two pop-up dormers in the front of the house.

Master bath! An unusual element in a Sears house, but the Glen Falls is a really beautiful design.

Then we have the back, right side bedroom, which is entered from the reading alcove area at the top of the staircase. They've added a second closet in this room, too, across from the original closet shown-- this closet that we see here, is the added closet:

Two closets across from each other... the one to the right of the window is the only one shown on the original floor plan.

Back bedroom as seen from the reading alcove at the top of the stairs. Notice that recessed space on the right... that's the area that leads into the doorways of the master bedroom and the bedroom behind it... with a little linen closet there, in the hall. We can see the bathroom from here, too.

The main upstairs bathroom is in the front of the house, in the top of the big, pointed-gable entry vestibule on the front of the house. You can see it in the photo above. Here it is:

The layout of the bathtub and other fixtures, is not quite where it is shown on the floor plan, so that shows us that we shouldn't always expect the Glen Falls to have the bath tub on the side wall. There's that little window we see in the front of the house, up high above the front door.

This is the larger of the two back bedrooms, the one with separated windows on the back wall, and with a very wide closet (labeled as wardrobe)... the same closet is shown on the Lewis Homes Vernon kit as being two closets... the closet door treatment of this one, looks more like the Vernon, than what I'd expect in a Glen Falls:

And, finally, the smallest bedroom, shown in this house as a nursery. It's in the front of the house, and one of the windows is the one we see in the smaller pop-up dormer in the front of the house. This room appears to have had an additional closet added, as well:

The smaller of the two front bedrooms.

Oh! And, I meant to show this earlier in the post, but Blogger is being uncooperative and won't let me squeeze it back in, above... here is the first-floor entry vestibule, with the coat closet having been changed to a powder room... hence the change of placement of the entry door for that space:

And... yes... this real estate photo shows that the entry vestibule coat closet space is now a powder room, hence the side-wall entry door.

Well, that's it for my primer on the Sears Glen Falls and similar "lookalikes" from other companies. I have learned so much about this model, writing the blog post. I hope you've enjoyed seeing this beautiful example of one of our favorite Sears kit-house models. To the new owners, I say: "Welcome home!" (And, if you see this, and would like to send me photos of those blueprints, I'd love to add them to this blog post!)

Sears Glen Falls, built in 1927, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

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