Indiana Landmarks offers two opportunities to learn about architectural styles and the people who used them at Indiana Dunes ...

A rare all-steel Lustron Home built in 1949 in North Dallas is under consideration for city historic landmark status.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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, ...

DeWitt, N.Y. — While tidying up her home in anticipation of photographers coming around to shoot it before it went on the market, Diana Brownlie could not help but feel nostalgic. “What a nifty house, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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