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.
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