As a youngster in the 1950s, I remember my folks pointing out to me a house on West Street in Pittsfield. Because the home looked sort of like a porcelain-enameled eatery I had seen in Albany, N.Y., I ...

In my youth, when someone asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, I always said I was going to be a lady wrestler. But as I grew older, I changed my mind and decided I'd like to be an architect, ...

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 ...

Some vintage homes can gain cult followings - Frank Lloyd Wrights, Sears Kit homes, Victorians, Cape Codders. But one home type that I think deserves just as much attention and enthusiasm is a Lustron ...

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.

Eight cool facts about one of Rochester’s most interesting houses (and its owner). A little slice of homebuilding history sits quietly in a northeast Rochester neighborhood. Invented in the 1940s to ...

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 ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Chapel Hill's last intact Lustron home faces demolition if unsold by Aug. 31. Preservation NC lists the postwar steel home for ...

The Lustron house at the Grand Forks Historical Society grounds on Belmont Road will have a formal grand opening come spring, said Leah Byzewski, executive director. The home was in the Lincoln Drive ...

BEDFORD PARK, Ill. (AP) -- Teresa Baron didn't know anything about Lustron homes before she bought one in Bedford Park. Baron was shopping for a home for her husband Don's elderly aunt. She was ...

Chapel Hill's last intact Lustron home faces demolition if unsold by Aug. 31. Preservation NC lists the postwar steel home for $397,000 to attract buyers. NCModernist promotes historic value as ...

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