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Libertyville: The Puritan Model

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Libertyville has about 12 Sears houses and a smattering of kit homes from other manufacturers. One of the Libertyville Sears houses is a Puritan model.

415 W. Cook, Libertyville.

Sears Puritan.

This authenticated Sears Puritan was built in 1925. The sun room turned into a large addition at some point.

The fireplace was not standard in the Puritan.

The original attic window on the Puritan.

On top of the huge addition is a rooftop garden.

This appears to be the original Sears garage.

In 1925, Sears Roebuck gave a mortgage to Isabelle Carpenter Kendall for the Sears Puritan. She worked for the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound railway as as the editor of their in-house publications. She had a degree
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