28 State Lustron Photo Tour

This photo tour takes you to selected Luston homes across 28 states. Thanks to all of you contributors who share your Lustron pictures with visitors from around the world. Mass-produced, porcelain-steel homes really did exist, and here are some survivors!

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Ames, Iowa
A One Of A Kind, Oversized Lustron With Basement
See Related Story in Lustron Stories
and Other Photos in IOWA

 

 

 

 

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

Also Available: 1949 Construction Photos Of This Home
  In Color

Also Available:
1950s Living In This Lustron Home   In Color

 

 

 

 

 

Rocky Mount, North Carollina
Lustron Garage ~ Photo by Lawrence Auld
(See House in North Carolina Photos)

 

 

 

 

Macomb, IL
One of the Rare Lustrons With a Basement

 

 

 

 

Dayton, Ohio Area
The "Orange-Themed Lustron" Also, See Interiors Section

 

 

 

 

St. Louis, Missouri

 

 

 

 

Forest Heights, Maryland
A Rare, Custom-Built Lustron ~ Two Lustrons Joined at Right Angles
Possibly the Largest Residential Lustron Structure in Existence
See More in Interiors
& Maryland

 

 

 

 

Luce Rd., Williamstown, Massachusetts
Just After Construction in 1950


How Does The Williamstown Lustron Look Today? - Then & Now Photos

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 ]

 

 

 

 

Ypsilanti, Michigan

 

 

Evansville, Indiana
Photo by Chris Anderson

 

 

 

Hyannis (Cape Cod), Massachusetts
Just three blocks from Nantucket Sound and the Atlantic Ocean

Photo © Dave Doolittle, CapeCodPhotoAlbum.com ~ Slide Show Available For This Home - HERE


 

 

 

 

Lincolnshire, IL    Photograph © Sarah Soria 2007
This is one of eleven Lustrons built in a circle -- Photo Survey Of The Unusual Lustron Circle

 

 

 

Oxford, Nebraska

 

 

 

Ithaca, NY

 

 

 

Marion, Indiana

 

 

 

 

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"

 

 

 

 

 


Columbia City...Tri-Lakes, Indiana
More Of This Luston Home In "Lustron Photos ~ Indiana"  "Stories" & "Interior Photos"

 

 

 

 

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 "Krowne" Lustron, from Arlington, VA, partially reconstructed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The exhibit "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" features other full scale models of other pre-fab home concepts. See exhibit details in News & Features.

 

 

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