Montgomery Ward House

Violett Relph enthusiastically enjoys the Haigler Blog. Her younger son, Lavern (LaVeta's twin brother), who has a computer and access to the Internet, gives her printouts of things he thinks might interest her.

She comments on the Montgomery Ward house that was mentioned in the early days of Haigler Blogspot site. She remembers her father, Floyd Trembly, talking about it. It was received at the Haigler Train Depot in crates and assembled on what is now a vacant lot across the street south of the Haigler Elementary School. The scattered remnants of a cement foundation and a depression in the ground are the only evidences of its existance. The site, of course, is now grown over with grass and weeds.

Violett has checked with Ward Wonder and others who confirm that this was, in fact, the location. The house was moved sometime later to a location south of Haigler in Kansas. Stan Zuege showed Ray the spot south of the school.

We want to find out exactly where the house was moved to and see if we can locate it and hopefully get a picture.

--Submitted by Floy Ruggles

Editor's note: The picture above is an ad for a "Wardway Homes" house taken from a 1925 magazine. It is not necessarily like the one constructed in Haigler. A home like this sold for around $3,000. Other catalog companies like Sears & Roebuck also had Home Kits for sale in their catalogs. These homes were designed to look like the custom built homes of the time, so many of them look like the homes we see around older sections of cities and towns. Here is a link to the Wardway Homes of 1925. One of them is very likely similar to the one built in Haigler.

(see The Palmer House - Another Mail Order House)