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	Lustron, The House America's Been Waiting For \| History \| WOSU Stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lustron's brief, and often tumultuous, existence poignantly reflects the expectations, frustrations, triumphs, and follies of America society in the immediate postwar era.
		Lustron represented a logical extension of technological, organizational, and architectural trends evident in the prefabricated housing industry since the turn of the century.
		The Lustron Corporation provides an especially useful case study in the history of the American prefabricated housing industry because it illuminates a broad range of issues and themes in the fields of urban, industrial, and political history during the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.wosu.org /tv/lustron/history.php (1065 words)

	Architectural Forum Magazine on Building, May 1949
		Lustron argues that, if it broke its house down and shipped it in carloads of like parts, these rates would apply, and is petioning the railroads to permit shipping the house as a unit at the cost of shipping the parts seperately.
		Lustron may not be able to beat the cost of the Levitts or Burns-Kaiser, who build thousands of houses a year on a single tract of land.
		Lustron's okay is based on a detailed work sheet covering the man-hour cost of every part of the construction operation and the cost of any materials purchased locally; a square-foot quote enabling the builder to hide his profit is not permitted.
	strandlund.tripod.com /index-26.html (5543 words)

	The Lustron House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 steel in the houses was an original design, including both steel framing and steel interior walls and ceiling, while most houses were constructed with wood framing and plaster walls on wood.
		In addition, the houses were pitched as rodent-proof, fire-proof, lightning-proof, rust-proof and maintenance-free.
		The houses would sell for between $8500 and $9500, according to a March 1949 article in the Columbus Dispatch, about 25% less than comparable conventional housing; by November 1949, the average selling price had come up to $10,500.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lustron (366 words)

	Lustron house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Lustron House was developed in the post-World War II era in response to the shortage of houses for returning GIs.
		The steel in the houses was an original design, including both steel framing and steel interior walls and ceiling, when most houses were constructed with wood framing and plaster walls on wood.
		Strundland's Lustron Corporation constructed 2,498 Luston Homes in an adapted aircraft plant in Columbus, Ohio between 1949 and 1950.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Lustron (148 words)

	CONSUMER REPORTS - June, 1948
		But because it is built locally, CU's housing consultant estimates that it would cost a good $23,000, without the garage and the terracing shown in the sketch and excluding the cost of the lot.
		The Lustron house is made almost entirely of metal; the floors are asphalt tile and only the built-in shelving and cabinets are wood.
		In addition, the Lustron house contains several pieces of well-designed and well-made built-in furniture, including a dressing table and cupboards in the master bedroom; shelf space, drawers and serving space in the dinette; and bookshelves in the living room.
	members.tripod.com /~Strandlund/index-16.html (1744 words)

	Lustron, The House America's Been Waiting For \| Tour a Lustron House \| WOSU Stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		These houses were designed to create neighborhoods where virtually all homeowners and their families were homogeneous.
	www.wosu.org /tv/lustron/house.php (454 words)

	FEMA: Environment & Historic Program: Relocation of a Lustron House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		Many of these houses have been lost over the past fifty years, and most of the remaining houses are eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
		Although the house originally took thirty days to assemble, it was taken apart in nine days in the Spring of 2001.
	www.fema.gov /ehp/lustron.shtm (784 words)

	Metroland Online - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Lustron Home is built in a factory by the same mass-production, unit-assembly and precision methods that have made the motorcar the greatest industrial achievement and economic benefit of the century.
		Lustrons are a rare species, and in fact, many people (historians included) know little to nothing about the odd-looking, pastel-colored structures that pop up in clusters in some of the strangest places.
		Likewise, Norfleet’s house is fairly true to its original state: The interior, steel squares that make up the walls are in impeccable shape, the metal pocket doors slide smoothly on their hinges, the shiny buffet is still in place between the dining area and the kitchen.
	www.metroland.net /back_issues/vol_25_no24/features_2.html (2988 words)

	The Modern Spring 1999 Vol. 13 No. 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lustron Houses were not for the wealthy, but for the average working-class family.
		A deed restriction required that houses in the Evergreen Village subdivision be built of brick, stone or hallow tile.
		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)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		Knerr's cousin from the farming community of Convoy, Ohio, married the boy who lived in the house next door to her, a house that happened to be a Lustron.
		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)

	Lustron Foresight On The Subject Of Lustron We Obtained It Total (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lustron's were inexpensive and easy-to-maintain homes built entirely from post-war surplus steel.
		Lustron, a modern prefabricated home under construction that is within the means of the Average...
		The "Tex" was derived from textiles and the "tron" came from synthetics such as "Lustron." The theme of the advertising reflected Little's vision: "From yarn to you, it's Textron all the way...
	viewhouses.feckview.com /lustron (830 words)

	2003 Film Fest - Lustron - The House America's Been Waiting For
		The Lustron homes were assembled from porcelain-enameled steel panels.
		But there is no book that serves as a basis for Lustron – the House America’s Been Waiting For.
		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)

	OhioKids! - TellZall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lustron dealers across the country faced building-code restrictions that often prevented sales, slow Federal Housing Administration 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; the company never reached the numbers needed to lower costs.
		Lustron had missed the peak demand of the housing boom following the end of the war.
	www.ohiokids.org /tz/feb04.shtml (600 words)

	The Barnes House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These, along with this Lustron house, have more to do with type of construction than architectural significance, but they are part of our historic heritage that evolved during a period following 1940.
		The exterior walls are of 24”-square porcelain enameled panels attached to the house’s metal frame, the interior walls resemble normal wood paneling, the green-colored roof resembles shingles, the ceiling and even the closet and cabinet doors are metal.
		Popular features of the original Lustron home were a dishwasher that converted into a clothes washer, and of course the outside and inside walls could be wiped clean with a damp cloth (not to mention be waxed like a car).
	www.historicperrysburg.org /lustron.htm (420 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.
		Porcelain-enameled steel, the same resistant finish found on bathtubs and appliances, covered all surfaces of the Lustron house.
		In suburban neighborhoods across the Midwest, the South and Northeast, Lustron houses were popping up at the rate of one house every four days.
	www.lustron.org /film.htm (435 words)

	Lustron: The House America's Been Waiting For (2002) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lustron: The House America's Been Waiting For (2002) (TV)
		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.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0345595 (385 words)

	Lustron Unearth Significant Certain Wisdom Encompassing Lustron
		A departure from these post World War II Colonial Revival dwellings is the Lustron House on Rhem Avenue, one of two erected in New Bern in the mid 1950's.
		Lustron Home 2009 Williams Blvd., SW, Cedar Rapids Out of several million new homes built nationwide in the immediate post-World War II years, only 2,680 Lustron homes in total were shipped out of...
		The Lustron House was developed in the post- World War II era in response to the shortage houses for returning GIs.
	mountainarchitect.mendarchitect.com /lustron (981 words)

	Moving (and saving) an historic Lustron house - Oldhouseweb.com
		Lustron House in Lincoln Park, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
		The City of Grand Forks, North Dakota, used the FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program for the removal of the historic Lustron house from its site in the 100-year floodplain near the Red River.
		The process proved a successful alternative to demolition, thus minimizing the "adverse effect" to the Lustron House.
	www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/12273.shtml (793 words)

	Urban Review - St. Louis: Rare Lustron Home Razed by Developer on a Saturday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In December 2004 I posted the picture at right of a Lustron House endanger of being razed for what was a rather boring in-fill development.
		While the Lustron house is not the most urban of houses they are also quite rare and worth saving.
		One person concerned about the future of the Lustron house went by a noon on Saturday and the building was still standing.
	www.urbanreviewstl.com /archives/000178.php (1143 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 (903 words)

	Barton County Museum - Lustron News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The foundation for the Lustron has finally been poured at the Museum and the house is in the process of being constructed on the Museum grounds
		New slideshow of the Lustron reconstruction at the Museum
		The first Lustron came off of the assembly line in March 1948 and 26 units were produced each day when production reached it's peak.
	www.bartoncountymuseum.org /page10.html (241 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Manufactured Homes
		Whether in a specifically designated manufactured housing subdivision or on an individual lot in town or country, the modern factory-built home is largely fulfilling America's urgent need for affordable housing.
		One of the main obstacles to greater social acceptance of manufactured housing is its association in the minds of many with the earlier forms of the type: people still think of them as trailers.
		World War II created a ready market for the house trailer, as thousands of units were ordered by the government to shelter workers involved in construction and war-time production projects across the country.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100758 (993 words)

	Lustron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The rise and fall of inventor Carl Strandlund and his revolutionary "all steel" house is a gripping...
		Wilson Wyatt, head of the National Housing Agency, ordered the WAA to cancel Tucker's lease and turn the plant over to the Lustron Corporation to build pre-fab houses.
		Except for the 2500 Lustron houses manufactured in the late 1940s, the material was rarely used in residential applications.
	aframehouseplans.fibsframe.com /lustronotd (856 words)

	Lustron Luxury Home
		If you found my web site about Lustrons through a search and are interested in Lustron Home history or repair information, please go to the Yahoo Lustron Group BBS for help.
		Over the years living in my Lustron, at times I have sat and wondered what it was like for the first family to live in their brand new Lustron home.
		When you tell people you live in a metal house, this is probably what most of them imagine at first.
	www.piranhagraphix.com /Lustron (590 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.
		Her house, unaltered and in mint condition, was assessed on Jan. 1 at $68,300 - about eight times its $8,995 purchase price.
		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 (1493 words)

	Lustron Find Compelling Absolute Knowledge All Around Lustron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lustron House Deconstruction Knowing an American artifact when she sees one, Susan was determined not to let yet another historic building go to landfill.
		It arrived by truck from the Lustron Corporation in Ohio, complete with electrical equipment, heater, plumbing, kitchen appliances, and steel panels for assembly into exterior and interior walls...
		The "Tex" was derived from textiles and the "tron" came from synthetic fibers such as "Lustron", reflecting the company's origins in the textile industry.
	geodesicdomehouse.mdome.com /lustrondqk (1111 words)

	Lustron house: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) loan to manufacture steel (steel: An alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range) houses with porcelain (porcelain: Ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic) coated exterior panels.
		Strundland's Lustron Corporation constructed 2,498 Luston Homes in an adapted aircraft plant in Columbus, Ohio (Columbus, Ohio: more facts about this subject) between 1949 and 1950.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/lustron_house (210 words)

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