Lustron homes

Could you fall in love with a Lustron home? These prefab houses made of steel originated in the 1940s and are practically indestructible.

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Step into the 1950's as you tour a Lustron home in Columbus, Ohio. Created by the Lustron Corporation these were a precursor to modern day pre-fab homes.

All metal homes are becoming a popular choice for new construction due to the long-lasting, naturally resistant materials. Since these homes are often

The home, a rare example of mid-century ingenuity, has been carefully preserved throughout the years to keep its historic essence intact.

In the fall of 2015, Kirsten Lee’s job was to get an unusual metal house behind a high wooden fence in Elm Heights ready for sale. Kirsten threw herself into the task and soon fell in love with the house. Six months ago it became her home.

Lustron Corp. hoped its prefabricated steel homes would address the need for postwar housing. The company’s Columbus factory closed after making just 2,600 homes, most of which still stand today.

Time for another mid-century road-trip! This time we headed to Columbus, Ohio, to tour the Lustron house that resides inside of the Ohio History Museum. Could YOU live here? I could.

"The House America's Been Waiting For" "Never before in America a House Like This," read the 1949 Lustron advertisement in The Saturday Evening Post. Nor, as it turns out, was there ever again a house like the Lustron. Constructed entirely of steel - including the interior and exterior walls, roof, the ceiling, kitchen cabinets, bookcase, and a vanity - the modest modernist ranches were entrepreneur Carl Strandlunds' solution to the severe housing shortage which plagued the country at the…

The durable steel Lustron homes in Minneapolis are a blast from the past— surviving examples of a midcentury design innovation.