Article: Feeling right at home // Leonardo finds a masterpiece made of steel in Lustron

Article: For some, Lustron homes have never lost their ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  October 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... 1948 launch of his newfangled all-steel Lustron prefab home factory that Columbus, Ohio ... The philosophical idea behind the Lustron house was to do for housing what Henry ... Model T, you only got black. In the Lustron, you got six colors _ aqua, pink, gray ...

Article: LUSTRON HOMES IN FOX VALLEY LEGACY OF POSTWAR HOUSING BOOM
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  April 29, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Lustron homes in Fox Valley legacy of postwar housing ... national magazines touted the benefits of the Lustron all-steel home, including claims it ... rats, termites and other vermin. The Lustron Corporation also claimed the roof would ...

Article: Lustron home still an alternative
Arlington Heights Post (IL);  February 13, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... to show how easy it was to care for a Lustron home. Josephine Schalin jokes she might ... used a hose to wash the outside of the Lustron house in Arlington Heights where she has ... Schalin received from her son depicts a Lustron home as an icon of affordable living in ...

Article: Homes of steel; Historic register to recognize nuts and bolts of ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the country's few remaining relatively untouched Lustron homes. The Lustron home was the brainchild of Carl Strandlund, an inventor ... government invested $40 million to subsidize the Lustron concept as a way to ease the housing crisis created ...

Article: Steel appeal Lustron Homes show their metal and retain ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  March 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... an extra-large filing cabinet has its quirks, but Lustron Homes still have the same space-age appeal the Lustron Corp. advertised in the 1940s. Tom Fetters, Lombard author of Lustron Homes: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing ...

Article: Oh, the luster of Lustron.
La Crosse Tribune (La Crosse, WI);  January 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... housing construction because the house is a Lustron home, made of enameled steel, which ... is converting most of her renters into Lustron home fans. With a book and a DVD available ... Chicago, have started searching for other Lustron homes to visit. They looked Lustron up ...

Article: SEPARATE WAYS; Two Lustron houses on the same Minneapolis ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... rambler or ranch house. They were looking for a Lustron. At first glance, a Lustron doesn't appear to be the sort of house that ... to "create a new standard for living." The Lustron company fell short of its lofty goal, foundering ...