2201 15th Ave. W., Bradenton. Lustron homes were made of enameled metal and assembled after being trucked in from Ohio. I almost bought this house back in 2001 and am still kicking myself that the ...
An Oak Park ranch-style home worthy of the phrase "they don't make 'em like that anymore" is up for sale. It's what's known as a Lustron home, a prefabricated house designed by engineer Carl G.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Merry Christmas? You bet! Happy New Year? Of course! How could it not be a happy new year — at Christmastime, at the Lustron House ...
The Lustron home was a factory-built steel house screwed together onsite by the Lustron Corporation. From 1948 to 1950, ill-fated Lustron stamped out about two dozen houses a day on an assembly line ...
MINNEAPOLIS -- In the late 1940s, a dwelling made of prefabricated steel panels called the Lustron, was hailed by promoters as the house of the future. About 19 Lustrons were built in Minnesota, ...
syracuse.com: House of the Week: Billed as ‘home of the future,’ this DeWitt Lustron is one of just 2,500 ever built
House of the Week: Billed as ‘home of the future,’ this DeWitt Lustron is one of just 2,500 ever built
Alas, no amount of wishful thinking could save the Lustrons of Quantico. Demolition crews will arrive tomorrow to begin knocking down the remaining 34 all-metal, pastel-colored, iconic postwar houses ...
LIMA — A link to the past now sits vacant, waiting for preservation. Lima resident Jennifer Gause owns a Lustron house on Allentown Road. “There’s such a following of Lustron homes,” Gause said. Gause ...