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	FEMA: Environment & Historic Program: Relocation of a Lustron House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lustron houses are unique examples of the nation's response to housing shortages following World War II.
		Almost all of the parts in these houses were steel, and the panels used for the interior and exterior walls, the ceiling, and the roof were coated with porcelain enamel.
		The Lustron Corporation was only able to produce about 2,500 of these houses before they were forced to close.
	www.fema.gov /ehp/lustron.shtm (784 words)

	Kilroy Was Here - Lustron: "Threshhold to Better Living"
		Lustron dealers across the country faced code restrictions, slow FHA financing procedures, and the high cost of purchasing lots, pouring foundations, and supplying utilities.
		In addition, although Lustron houses were advertised as competitive with other tract houses, they were not, and were beyond the reach of many first-time buyers.
		Lustron had missed the peak demand of the housing boom following the end of the war.
	www.ohiohistory.org /etcetera/exhibits/kilroy/afterwar/lustron3.html (329 words)

	Lustron Homes: Part 3 Proving their mettle 50 years later
		Lustron figured it would take about 300-man hours to erect one of these homes, he said, standing in the living room of his own picture-perfect 1950-built Lustron.
		Standing in the basement of their Lustron, Charles pointed at the cast iron stack disappearing into the basement floor and shook his head, still a little indignant about the whole affair these 54 years later.
		Unlike most Lustrons, the Millers Lustron is one of the few in the country that is not built on a cement slab, but on a full basement.
	www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/12272.shtml (1504 words)

	Gallery - Lustron Mania
		I was familiar with the history of the Lustron but I did not know many -if any- of them still existed, since so few were made to begin with and never had a lot of respect from the communities that were host to them.
		This was apparently the source of the Lustrons the EI group in Arizona was seeking.
		Changing the decor of the Lustron is generally not possible by any conventional means because the porcelain coating will take no paint or glues and the steel panels are permanently marred by cutting them.
	radio.weblogs.com /0119080/stories/2003/03/04/galleryLustronMania.html (1318 words)

	The Lustron House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Lustron House was made of enameled cold rolled sheet metal, which never required painting and could hosed clean.
		The assembly sequence and the great capital investments priced the Lustron House out of the prefabricated housing market, with a cost of $10,000 to $12,000 per unit, when the industry average was between $5,500 and $8,500 (without land).
		The Lustron House, is a borderline mobile home, if we understand one of the defining features of the mobile home to be a chassis.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /studios/s97/burns/mh_lustron.html (196 words)

	Lustron house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lustron House was developed in the post-World War II era in response to the shortage of houses for returning GIs.
		Carl Strandlund, who had worked with constructing prefabricated gas stations, obtained a Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan to manufacture steel houses with porcelain-coated exterior panels.
		Strundland's Lustron Corporation constructed 2,498 Luston Homes in an adapted aircraft plant in Columbus, Ohio between 1949 and 1950.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lustron (169 words)

	Lustron, The House America's Been Waiting For \| WOSU Stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lustron, The House America's Been Waiting For
		President Harry S. Truman believed the time was ripe for an entirely new industry — prefabricated and manufactured housing.
		While the Lustron house — a one-story, gabled-roof ranch with a bay window and side porch — looked like other postwar-era dwellings, behind its traditional façade lay hopes and expectations for a new era in American housing.
	www.wosu.org /tv/lustron (84 words)

	LUSTRON Pamphlets and Brochures
		Lustron furnishes porcelain panels to its dealers for garages to match the colors you have chosen for your house.
		The Lustron Home is built in a factory by the same mass-production, unit-assembly and precision methods that have made the motor car the greatest industrial achievement and economic benefit of the century.
		The Lustron Home is not to be confused in any way with prefabricated houses as they have been known in the past.
	members.tripod.com /~Strandlund/index-2.html (5812 words)

	The Modern Spring 1999 Vol. 13 No. 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lustron Houses were not for the wealthy, but for the average working-class family.
		The brainchild of businessman Carl G. Strandlund, the Lustron House was developed as part of the federal government’s response to the housing shortage after World War II.
		Lustron Houses were not designed in a high-style moderne fashion—they are basic, simple, bungalow one-story homes.
	www.daads.org /modern/1301/lustron.htm (568 words)

	Lustron, The House America's Been Waiting For \| Tour a Lustron House \| WOSU Stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Two of Lustron's national advertising slogans — "The House America Has Been Waiting For," and "Lustron: A New Standard for Living"--effectively expressed the nation's expectations for accelerated progress and for the idea of a house as the "just reward" for a successful fight to defend the American way of life.
		The houses, which were originally expected to be produced at a rate of 100 per day expressed not only the notion of American innovation, but also served as a reminder of the increasingly present nuclear family.
		At the beginning of production, a Lustron house contained only two bedrooms, the implicit indication that returning veterans and their wives were to engender future American generations, and thereby regain that sense of American family.
	www.wosu.org /tv/lustron/house.php (454 words)

	A Door Closes on the Past (washingtonpost.com)
		There is no museum for Lustrons, said Wright, who receives a "fair amount of calls for something so obscure." Beyond the normal research inquiries, she gets questions about topics such as how to assess and repair fire damage to the all-steel structures.
		Fetters noted that Lustron houses are more threatened in urban than rural areas because of their large lots and relatively small size.
		Lustron houses are an example of the transition from wartime economy to peacetime economy, Burns said.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A53197-2002Feb22¬Found=true (1419 words)

	2003 Film Fest - Lustron - The House America's Been Waiting For
		The Lustron homes were assembled from porcelain-enameled steel panels.
		Lustron Corporation built a prototype house in 1946.
		The documentary Lustron – The House America’s Been Waiting For runs 56 minutes, produced by KDN Videoworks, Inc of Madison Heights, Michigan and WOSU-TV, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
	www.greatlakesfilmfest.com /film_fest/2003/films/Lustron.htm (518 words)

	Lombard Bungalow Club-Lustron Homes
		The franchise policy for Lustron was aimed particularly at architects and contractors.
		One ad stated: "It is the policy of Lustron to enfranchise well-established construction organizations capable of demonstrating to Lustron their financial, construction, merchandising, and land development qualifications." By May 1949 there were 143 dealers.
		Lustron felt giving the public a new model each year, the same as the auto industry does with automobiles, would be just what the public
	www.angelfire.com /il3/lombard/lustron_homes.htm (1243 words)

	Lustron Porcelain-on-Steel Homes
		My chief interest in Lustron homes is as MCS housing -a quiet crisis in the US right now with some 50% of the current million or so sufferers of this condition ending up homeless.
		I understand that Lustron owners have had trouble using conventional through-window and through-wall AC units for obvious reasons.
		Lustron will need around 800sf of storage and restoration work space when disassembled and replacement foundation slabs with hydronic heat tubing installed are estimated at about $3000 according to one individuals experience -though, of course, that will vary with region.
	www.ctaz.com /~bhima/lustron.htm (1279 words)

	Transcript - Lustron Homes: Prefabricated All-Metal Houses, Great Bend
		Narrator: Delores Fricks has more ties to Lustron houses than just living in one, her father was Dan Brock, a regional distributor of the house for Great Bend and the surrounding area.
		Narrator: Another current Lustron resident in Great Bend had ties back to the beginning of the saga, as he built houses for Dan Brock.
		Originally, Carl Strandlund who was the owner and president of Lustron had approached the Senate in about 1946 for an appropriation of steel, which was still a rationed material after W.W.II, to build some gas stations.
	ktwu.washburn.edu /journeys/scripts/1408c.html (1086 words)

	Lustron [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Lustron House was developed in the post-World War IIWorld War II was a global conflict fought between 1937-1945 or 1939-1945 involving every continent and the majority of the world's states.
		Rodents are found in vast numbers on all continents (they are the only placental order other than the bats to reach Australia without human introduction), most islands, and in all habitats bar the oceans....
		Strundland's Lustron Corporation constructed 2,498 Luston Homes in an adapted aircraft plant in Columbus, Ohio between 19491949 is a common year starting on Saturday.
	www.wikimirror.com /Lustron (891 words)

	Lustron Homes: Part 1 All-steel, post WWII homes were an engineering marvel
		This St. Louis Lustron is in nearly mint condition with its original siding and roof, validating the company's claims of a durable and low-maintenance home.
		Lustrons were designed to be built on a slab, with the exterior steel walls carrying the weight of the house.
		In 1950, the RFC foreclosed on Lustron and this grand and ambitious housing experiment came to an abrupt halt, leaving behind 2,680 all-steel houses, a $37.5 million debt to the federal government and thousands of unfilled orders and disappointed customers.
	www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/12270.shtml (2269 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		The Lustrons' lure is strong enough that fans of the homes--and many of the owners of the 2,000 or so Lustrons still thought to be standing across the country--run their own Yahoo!
		Lustron made its first big splash in April of 1948 when the corporation erected one of its prefabricated steel houses in New York City and invited the public to experience it.
		The Lustron Corporation's efforts to solve the country's affordable housing crisis back in the 1950s are interesting mainly because the United States still, more than fifty years later, suffers from the same crisis.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/4501.html (1901 words)

	Mid-Century Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Loudonville, NY There were originally five Loudonville Lustrons on Clover Lane (one was either moved or destroyed, one is sided-over, and the other three are shown here).
		The other yellow Lustron is has the garage in front (an unusual plan) which partially conceals the house.
		There were three other Lustrons in Loudonville just a few blocks away from Clover Lane on Osborne Rd. Two are now sided-over and one was either moved or demolished.
	www.agilitynut.com /modarch3a.html (340 words)

	Graham Foundation Lecture - Bill Ferehawk
		Lustron, short for luster-on-steel, was manufactured entirely of porcelain enameled steel, the same resistant finish used on bathtubs and appliances.
		Using rare period footage, stunning unpublished photographs, and first-hand accounts from former Lustron employees and former government officials, the film chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the General Motors of housing.
		Research into Lustron’s history continued over the next six years, culminating in a film that recounts a pivotal but largely forgotten chapter in American architectural, industrial, and political history.
	www.grahamfoundation.org /madlener/lecture-ferehawk.asp (297 words)

	Lustron homes shine in separate ways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At first glance, a Lustron doesn't appear to be the sort of house that would be sought after.
		But even though Lustron didn't revolutionize home building, it did make durable, mid-century style houses that have managed to attract a new generation of modernists, prefab fans and homeowners seeking the Lustron lifestyle.
		The Grundstrom Lustron has been featured in Architectural Minnesota magazine, was part of the 2004 Minneapolis/St. Paul Home Tour and has been a regular destination for architecture students.
	www.startribune.com /stories/418/5051421.html (693 words)

	JS Online: For some, Lustron homes have never lost their luster
		Daring in their 1948-to-1951 era, the shiny porcelain enamel-over-steel Lustrons offered a bold solution to two postwar problems: vast amounts of leftover steel and large numbers of returning veterans seeking inexpensive, family-sized housing.
		In Lustrons, Strandlund fashioned a sturdy, efficient, low-maintenance house replete with built-in amenities, produced and erected in two weeks.
		Carr rents an aqua Lustron on the city's north side that shows the ravages of inattention: broken glass, a dysfunctional door, exterior rust streaks.
	www.jsonline.com /homes/buy/oct02/85008.asp (1485 words)

	Lustron-The House America's Been Waiting For-The Film & More
		The one-hour documentary, Lustron – The House America’s Been Waiting For, tells the story of Chicago inventor Carl Strandlund and his crusade to revolutionize homebuilding by mass-producing steel houses—100 each day—on an assembly line.
		In suburban neighborhoods across the Midwest, the South and Northeast, Lustron houses were popping up at the rate of one house every four days.
		It is difficult to avoid comparing Lustron with Coppola’s movie, Tucker: The Man and His Dream,” remarks Lustron producer Ed Moore.
	www.lustron.org /film.htm (435 words)

	Mike Dust Fascinatum - Lustron Homes - Minneapolis, MN - Vol. 2 - January - No. 8
		In the late 1940's and early 1950, almost 2500 pre-fabricated porcelain-enameled steel homes were constructed by the Lustron Corporation.
		The vision of a Chicago entrepreneur, Carl Strandlund, these Lustron homes were designed to be the homes of the future, inexpensive and built to last, they were to serve the needs of the postwar housing shortage.
		Over the years, the Lustron homes have become a symbol of postwar America and now enjoy a following among their owners that borders on fanaticism.
	www.mikedust.com /fascinatum/2002/fascinatum-013002.html (213 words)

	Lustron: The House America's Been Waiting For (2002) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This film shows the real story of why the LUSTRON HOME, one of America's greatest achievements in architectural history was shut down in it's prime.
		There are some accounts about this prefab home that are totally false...one being that the Lustron Home shut down the TUCKER Auto plant.
		The film makers love for their topic shines through with interviews of people associated with the Lustron corporation and with recent owners of these wonderful, post WWII, all-metal, porcelain enamel on steel prefabricated homes.
	italy.imdb.com /title/tt0345595 (387 words)

	Recent Past Preservation Network
		If you are interested in the history of Lustron homes and their inventor Carl Strandlund, check out the award-winning film Lustron: The House America's Been Waiting For, a co-production of KDN Videoworks and WOSU.TV (Ohio State University).
		To be Deconstructed: Lustron House in Prospect Heights, Illinois.
		Lustron: The House America's Been Waiting For, a co-production of KDN Videoworks and WOSU.TV (Ohio State University).
	www.recentpast.org /types/resident/lustron (915 words)

	Lustron Homes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the late 1940's, about 2500 Lustron® Homes were sold and delivered throughout the eastern two-thirds of the United States.
		One of the largest caches of Lustron® Homes in the country is in Great Bend, Kansas.
		Architecture is one of the arts and the Lustron® Home is a fine example of residential architecture at its best.
	bartonarts.org /lustron (115 words)

	Painting Tips Lustron Homes - and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Painting Tips Lustron Homes - The works of chinnery, an english artist whose paintings capture the stunning beauty and culture of china.
		Painting Tips Lustron Homes - By george rowand 08 30 2005 upperville artist keith-vincent koontz continually finds ways to apply his high energy to project after project.
		Painting Tips Lustron Homes - The congress of aboriginal peoples has joined a call by the national aboriginal veterans association to have the canadian war museum remove paintings in its exhibit that depict two former aboriginal soldiers, private kyle brown and corporal clayton matchee, committing atrocities against somali prisoners.
	paintings-2.627painting.com /Painting-Tips-Lustron-Homes.html (499 words)

	Press Release - National Trust for Historic Preservation Awarded Grant for a Comprehensive Web Site on Lustron Houses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Lustron was an innovative type of all-steel prefabricated housing built in the years immediately following World War II.
		Strandlund founded the Lustron Corporation and obtained a government loan to produce steel framed houses with porcelain enamel coated steel interior and exterior panels.
		The Lustron was advertised as fire proof, lightening proof and vermin proof.
	www.nationaltrust.org /news/docs/20050121_lustron.html (429 words)

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