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Article: Feeling right at home // Leonardo finds a masterpiece made of steel in Lustron
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 15, 1998
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CHESTERTON, Ind. The cold steel exterior of the historic Lustron
home contrasts with the warm soul of singer-songwriter Leonardo
Biciunas. A few years ago the former Chicagoan relocated to
northwest Indiana, where he discovered a sleek Lustron wedged in
between Chesterton's old bungalows.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Lustron
Corp. Lustron built streamlined, prefabricated steel houses in a
surplus wartime aircraft factory in Columbus, Ohio. The enameled
steel houses never needed painting and could be washed down with a
garden hose. About 2,500 Lustrons were built before the company went
out of business in 1950. The homes were shipped, with more than
3,000 pieces, ...