Thanks to all the contributors who share their Lustron pictures with visitors from around the world. Mass-produced, porcelain-steel homes really did exist,
and here are some of the most historic, attractive and unusual survivors!
Fairbury, Illinois
Photo by Chris Anderson
Ames, Iowa: Now & Then Photos
A One Of A Kind, Oversized Lustron With Basement
See Related Story in Lustron Stories and Other Photos in IOWA
Ames, Iowa As in a 1955 Newspaper Photo
South Bend, Indiana
More Photos In Interiors &Indiana
Photo Courtesy of South Bend Tribune ~ Photo By Shayna Breslin
South Bend Tribune
Davenport, Iowa August 1950 ~ A New Luston Home Photo by Mike Jacobs, This Home's First Owner
Forest Heights, Maryland: The Double-Lustron
A Rare, Custom-Built Lustron ~ Two Lustrons Joined at Right Angles
Possibly the Largest Residential Lustron Structure in Existence
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Luce Rd., Williamstown, Massachusetts: Then & Now
Just After Construction in 1950
Flash Photo Sequence Of This Williamstown Home Construction 1949 -1950
Williamstown, MA photos courtesy Peter Rogers & Paige Carter
Closter, New Jersey
Historic Marker by Bergen County Historical Society
Photos courtesy of RoadsideArchitecture.com. (http://www.agilitynut.com/modarch/lustron.html)
[ Photos Composited Here By Lustron Connection For Readability ]
59 Chellman St, Boston, Massachusetts: Then & Now
Just After Construction in 1950, From Promotional Brochure "Camera Tour Through Lustron Home"
From Lustron Promotional Brochure
"Camera Tour Through A Lustron Home"
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Evansville, Indiana
Photo by Chris Anderson
Hyannis (Cape Cod), Massachusetts: The Cape Codder
Just three blocks from Nantucket Sound and the Atlantic Ocean
Photo Dave Doolittle, CapeCodPhotoAlbum.com ~ Slide Show Available For This Home - HERE
Lincolnshire, IL: Eleven Lustrons In A Circle Photograph 2007
This is one of eleven Lustrons built in a circle -- Photo Survey Of The Unusual Lustron Circle
McCook, Nebraska
Photo by Pat Beck Langfeldt
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Lustron Garage ~ Photo by Lawrence Auld
(See House in North Carolina Photos)
Ithaca, NY
Little Rock, Arkansas
Allentown, PA
Evansville, Indiana
Hotel, Canton, Ohio
Here's a hotel with Lustron Exterior Panels, Interior Panels and Lustron Roof Tiles Obtained from a 1950 Liquidation Sale.
See Ohio Page for Additional Photos Including Lustron-ized Garage Interior.
Photo by Rich Garey
Hotel Sign Digitally Superimposed by Lustron Connection
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Anaco, Venezuela
Des Moines, Iowa
Aurora, Illinois
Lustron Garage in Des Moines, Iowa
Also Featured in "Interiors Section"
Louisville, Kentucky
Quantico, Virginia
A Rare, Pink Lustron at Quantico Marine Base Lustron (More in Virginia Section)
Largest Lustron Neighborhood Anywhere. Many to be demolished or relocated.
Memphis, Tennessee
Next To Elvis' Graceland Mansion
Relative of Owner Hopes To Save This Home And Possibly Build a Museum . . . .MORE . . .
Loudonville, NY
Another Lustron Being Swallowed Up . . . The Fate Of some Lustrons buit on large lots.
Upstate New York Home, September 2007
Loudonville, NY
A Less Common Westchester Deluxe Three-Bedroom Home in Upstate New York
Small window in center is for a small bedroom
Spring Valley, Minnesota
Barcroft (Arlington), Virginia home
Just before being demolished in April 2007
Arlington, Virginia: The Lustron Installed In A Museum Building
5201 South 12th Street, Arlington, Virginia
The "Krowne Lustron" which was disassembled and resurrected for a museum exhibit in 2008. See below.
Arlington, Virginia Lustron At Museum of Modern Art
New York City's world-reknown Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) featured a July 20 - October 2008 exhibit on prefabricated housing. The exhibit was called "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling." The exhibit featured a partially reconstructed Lustron home. The featured Lustron was the Krowne Lustron House originally from Arlington, Virginia. Ever since the property owner donated the Lustron, it had been stored in crates awaiting a new home. The reconstruction took place just about 60 years after a Lustron demonstration model was constructed in midtown Manhattan, in 1948, right near MOMA. The Lustron was featured along with other full scale innovative home designs at the museum's west 53rd St. location.
Following the exhibit, the Krowne Lustron was disassembled and returned to storage. A July 2011 report at the Arlington, VA website story reported that the Krowne Lustron was to be donated to the Ohio Historical Society.
