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 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 ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- In the late 1940s, a dwelling made of prefabricated steel panels called the Lustron, was hailed by promoters as the house of the future. About 19 Lustrons were built in Minnesota, ...

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, ...

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