Last standing Sears & Roebuck catalog house
May 14, 2008
CPSA member Nancy Sikes-Kline reported to Historic City News this morning that Citizens for the Preservation of St. Augustine has joined the National Trust for Historic Preservation in celebrating National Historic Preservation Month by creating a new educational YouTube video.
This short film which we have linked to our home page, outlines the historic significance of the City’s one and only standing Sears & Roebuck catalogue house. The “Ivanhoe” model house, located on Oviedo Street in St. Augustine, Florida is threatened with demolition along with six others like it. The current property owner desires to build a hotel and restaurant.
The Florida Trust for Historic Preservation has designated the “Ivanhoe” house along with the other six homes to its statewide listing of Florida’s Most Endangered Historic Sites listing for 2008 and the National Trust for Historic Preservation has listed it in its new “This Place Matters” campaign.
A special thanks goes out to local historian and author David Nolan who is narrator of the video.
You can learn more about the organization and their issues by visiting cpsa-staug.org
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Just wanted to drop by and thank you for featuring the CPSA YouTube!
The response has been fabulous and overwhelmingly positive.
http://www.cpsa-staug.org/
IF the final decision following the ongoing litigation is to allow the demolition/removal of these seven houses, I think that this Sears Ivanhoe model house should be relocated - even at expense of the City to City-owned property as a last resort.
Thanks, bullg8rlady, for your continuing efforts in this and other St. Augustine issues - even though I hold a minority view on this one!
I don’t think the other six are in the same category of “historic” worth, and
think the phrase “six others like it” is misleading, as the “like” refers to the listings and period of construction, not to the uniqueness of the Sears catalogue house.
(Trivia: Now that I think of it I’m not sure Roebuck was a part of Sears back when the catalogue houses were for sale. I’ll check it out, and re-post if my memory has failed me yet again!).
Official history here: http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/
I am told that tonight on First Coast News, Jessica Clark will do a story on the Citizens for the Preservation of St. Augustine’s YouTube about the Sears & Roebuck house on Oviedo Street.
It will be on the 6 o’clock news tonight, but if you miss it, it will be posted on their website.