LUCAS COUNTY, Ohio — As Houses go, they aren't the most beautiful on the block. They're boxy, a bit odd looking and small, and strangely...they are made of steel. Actually it is a "porcelain enameled ...

As a youngster in the 1950s, I remember my folks pointing out to me a house on West Street in Pittsfield. Because the home looked sort of like a porcelain-enameled eatery I had seen in Albany, N.Y., I ...

HUNTINGTON -- Lustron homes were a fine example of Yankee ingenuity solving a problem and American politics destroying an industry. These prefabricated homes were meant to fill a need in the housing ...

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 ...

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, ...

What may have been the last Lustron home in Arlington Heights was recently demolished, in what was a rare example of the housing stock available in the post-World War II boom. Only 2,500 of the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

As a child, Carlisle resident Scott James didn't think twice about his grandmother Corda James' steel and porcelain enamel home. “Now, looking back, it was very unique,” James said. Last week, the ...

Our home is being watched. Men in dark SUVs idle in front of our maize yellow ranch, jot down notes, then speed off. They send boilerplate letters inviting me and my husband, Andrea, to discuss a cash ...