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[…] OHI Number Present/ Other NameAddress/ Location City County Region Estimated Construction Date Architectural Style Arch i tect/ Architectural Firm/ Contractor (if known) Historic Use(s) Data Source CLA0120501 Lustron House 214 E McCreight AveSpringfield Clark Dayton-Western Ohio1948 Lustron Corp/ Porcelain Steel Building Company Single Dwelling OHI Database COL0034718 Lustron House 1611 Pennslyvania AveEast Liverpool Columbiana […]
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[…] of approaches, including various schemes for prefabricating dwellings and with adapting non-traditional materials, such as steel, for building houses. From this dilemma, Carl Strandlund conceived Ohio’s iconic Lustron House (Lustron Preservation 2010). During the war years, the Swedish-born Strandlund, an engineer by training, worked for the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Product Company. After the war’s […]
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[…] This resulted in miles of identical housing in planned neighborhoods made affordable to the average American family. The cheap, easy to assemble ‘kit’ homes, such as the Lustron Homes, Sears Cata log Homes, and Forest City Enterprises, Inc., grew in popularity during this period, even though kit houses were available since the early twentieth […]
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[…] Revised Program "Utilization of Materials to M eet Housing Needs of Rural Families." Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1965. Repository: Cincinnati Public Library. Featherstone, Ray. Lustron Homes Research Collection . Repository: Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library. Field, Wooster Bard. House Planning. New York, London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, 1940. Reposito ry: Cleveland Public […]
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[…] block). The Permastone Company of Columbus was founded in the late 1920s and marketed a simulated masonry product that was widely used in the Modern era. The Lustron Company, also of Columbus, manufactured pre ‐fabricated porcelain enameled steel houses. The period 1940 through 1970 witnessed a great deal of development of new materials and […]
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[…] block). The Permastone Company of Columbus was founded in the late 1920s and marketed a simulated masonry product that was widely used in the Modern era. The Lustron Company, also of Columbus, manufactured pre ‐fabricated porcelain enameled steel houses. The period 1940 through 1970 witnessed a great deal of development of new materials and […]
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[…] May, p. 12. East Liverpool, Ohio. Fearing, Heidi 2017 Collinwood High School Riots. Electronic document, https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/392#.WThRD usrLIV , accessed June 15, 2017. Fetters, Thomas T. 2002 The Lustron Home: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment . McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina and London. Fleischman, Richard. 2016 Oral interview conducted […]