Word has it that a genuine Sears, Roebuck & Co. kit house, a much-prized vestige of early 1900s Americana, has been hiding in plain sight on High Street in Westerly for a century.
The structure, at 166 High St., a three-apartment building, was sold recently for $490,000 and stands as a handsome example of the Sears kit home known as the âAlhambra,â described as a âSpanish-flavored foursquareâ in the âMission style of architecture.â
It first appeared in the Sears catalog of kit homes in 1918 and this one, according to Westerly town assessor records, was built in 1919. Alhambra, if you were wondering, is the name of a 13th-century Moorish citadel and palace in Granada, located in the Andalusian region of Spain.