LIMA — A link to the past now sits vacant, waiting for preservation. Lima resident Jennifer Gause owns a Lustron house on Allentown Road. “There’s such a following of Lustron homes,” Gause said. Gause ...

Christmas, recreated at a 1950s 'house of the future' in Closter, tells us a lot about the past — and the future people were ...

CLOSTER — After nearly three years of restoration, the historic Harold Hess Lustron House will be open for public viewing starting in December. The Closter Historical Society will have the house open ...

A. A byproduct of the post-World War II era, Lustron houses were prefabricated houses made of enameled steel. Introduced by the Lustron Corp. in 1948, they were intended to fill the demand for housing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transitioning back to normal life after WWII had its fair share of challenges for soldiers, one of which was a housing shortage. Lustron houses—prefabricated enamel steel homes—were a direct response ...

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 ...

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 ...