Easy to do! I've known several in my hometown, even rented one for a while. Recently looking at properties for sale around the state, found a fancy house with a pillar'd porch and elaborate newel post, pillared doorways, sliding doors, screened summer kitchen in the back - and instantly recognized it as a Sears Roebuck house with added features!
If you enter into a 'parlor' with a switchback staircase on the right, fancy newel post, maybe a gabled landing then it's a good chance. To the left, a double doorway to a sitting room. Right from there, pillared fancy doorway (possibly sliding doors) to a dining room with bay window. Behind that a pantry and then a screened summer kitchen, often closed in in later years.
Straight from the entryway you get a sort of closet with the basement stairs on the right (and maybe another exterior door) and a shelving unit on the left. Through that to a play room or downstairs bedroom. If there's a bathroom it's behind that.
All lathe-and-plaster walls, wainscoting of various designs depending on the money they had to spend.
Upstairs a short hallway with four doors to four bedrooms. Maybe a sleeping porch behind the first bedroom on the right.
Anyway seen this design around here (midwest) many times, sometimes a little larger or smaller but always the same layout!
If you enter into a 'parlor' with a switchback staircase on the right, fancy newel post, maybe a gabled landing then it's a good chance. To the left, a double doorway to a sitting room. Right from there, pillared fancy doorway (possibly sliding doors) to a dining room with bay window. Behind that a pantry and then a screened summer kitchen, often closed in in later years.
Straight from the entryway you get a sort of closet with the basement stairs on the right (and maybe another exterior door) and a shelving unit on the left. Through that to a play room or downstairs bedroom. If there's a bathroom it's behind that.
All lathe-and-plaster walls, wainscoting of various designs depending on the money they had to spend.
Upstairs a short hallway with four doors to four bedrooms. Maybe a sleeping porch behind the first bedroom on the right.
Anyway seen this design around here (midwest) many times, sometimes a little larger or smaller but always the same layout!