Lustron House

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 ...

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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, ...

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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

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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 ...