Charles Mintz spent almost three years lugging a camera to 125 homes in 15 states. Yet, in a sense, he was visiting the same house each time. All were made by Lustron, the Columbus company that built ...

We all dream of a maintenance-free home. But with a Lustron house, it’s the selling point. These prefab houses from the 1940s are practically indestructible. Made of porcelain-coated stainless ...

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 ...

PERRY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Sue Williams wasn’t exactly impressed when she learned the little house down the street was a Lustron home. She’d requested a showing when she saw the house was for sale, ...

This home, a post-WWII, all steel Lustron home, was taken apart and stored until it can be reassembled as a study center and house museum in Chickasaw. Only about 10 of the homes survive in Alabama ...

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 ...

Brian and Eric Campbell are dismantling one piece of the American dream in hopes of fulfilling another: turning a profit. Until recently, the brothers lived at 300 S. Gould Rd. in a Lustron home, a ...

At the end of World War II, there was a great need for housing. Very few homes were built during the Depression and war years, and with millions of soldiers returning from overseas, the need was ...

Two of 10 recorded Lustron homes in Alabama will be demolished this year to make way for a condo development. Real Estate developer Margie Ingram expects to break ground on the Manning Condos, a ...

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 ...

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 ...