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 ...

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 could be better than a $10,000 home that lasts 100 years without the need to paint, re-shingle or repair? Particularly if you were a GI returning from World War II ready to settle down and start ...

Sorry, baby boomers, but the 1950s are officially history. It might not seem like that long ago, but when the comic books you read, the TV you watched and the toys ...

First off: Lustron home expert Tom Fetters doesn’t live in a Lustron. But he’s virtually surrounded by the 1950s-era, all-steel, enamel-clad ranch houses in Lombard, which he contends is the Lustron ...

I lived a few blocks from the row of metal houses on the 5000 block of Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis for many years before I paid any attention to them. I took more notice about eight years ago when ...

On the market in Aurora is a house with steel walls—inside and outside—as well as ceilings made of steel. It’s a rare relic of one Chicagoan’s grand 1940s plan to solve the nation’s post-World War II ...