I just read about the Lustron web Site in an article in the Columbus Dispatch and thought I would provide you with some remembrances of growing up in a Lustron Home.

We moved to a Lustron house at 3786 Westerville Road, in Mifflin Twp. just north of Columbus, Ohio in 1952. It was a three bedroom house that was built on Carl Strandlund's estate as a prototype for the U. S. Army. We lived there until about 1962.

Carl and his family were our next door neighbors until they moved to New York City. I don't recall the serial number of the house, but it was an aqua green color and could certainly get cold in the winter. Probably because of the large picture windows in each of the rooms. But it was a great place to live, especially growing up as a kid on a 125 acre estate, with a swimming pool and horses to ride. Carl raised race horses and the Rittenours who bought the estate from him raised hunters and jumpers.

My two most vivid memories of Carl were racing home after school to see him testify, on TV, during the Army/McCarthy hearings, as Carl paid a number of Senator Joe McCarthy's gambling debts. And, when Carl moved to an apartment in NY, he gave me his dog, a boxer named "Buttercup" she was a Malabar Farms boxer that Carl purchased from Louie Bromfield, the author who owned Malabar Farms and bred boxers.

There is also a Lustron house in the town where I currently live, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. However, you would not recognize it, except for the roof, as it has been aluminum sided. One other remembrance about Lustron, which had slipped my mind. Carl also had taken the stable and added a recreation room and an apartment made from Lustron panels. I don't remember if it had a steel roof or not, however I don't believe so. Carl Sandburg, who was the Vice President of Sales for Lustron had purchased some of the stamping dies for the wall and roof panels and built a Lustron type house near Reynoldsburg, Ohio. The big difference was that the inside walls were not metal, but normal drywall. However, externally you couldn't tell the difference.

E. Greer Wurster Chagrin Falls, OHIO