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 ...

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 ...

Buck Holzemer lives in a blue steel box that shimmers under the setting sun. Even the inside walls are steel, he noted, knocking on a kitchen wall to prompt a tinny reverberation. But Holzemer's ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mary H. Matthews Lustron House in Little Rock is among the properties newly listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the country's official list of historically significant properties, ...

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, ...