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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although they never became widespread, you can still find them today — mostly in the Midwest. And while they might look like ...

Lustron houses were prefabricated homes manufactured in Columbus, Ohio, from 1948 to 1950. The mass-produced, easy-to-assemble structures were intended as a solution to the postwar housing shortage, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brian and Eric Campbell are dismantling their piece of the American dream. Until recently, the brothers lived on South Gould Road in a Lustron home, an all-steel, prefabricated house that was popular ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

CLOSTER — The borough’s Harold Hess Lustron House is getting a caretaker to keep an eye on the historic dwelling while the borough devises a plan to preserve it. The Borough Council unanimously ...