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This is a list of notable Lustron houses. A Lustron house is a home built using enameled metal. There were about 2500 prefabricated homes built in this manner. [1] [2]
Numerous Lustron houses have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]
Notable surviving Lustron houses include:
Arlington Heights
Bedford Park
Belleville
Des Plaines
Lustron House, 2040 Laura Ln, Des Plaines
Yorkville
Champaign-Urbana
Highland
Belvidere
Lincolnshire
Litchfield
Havana
Macomb
Mendota
Aurora
Salem
Wilmette
Skokie
Sycamore
Rockford
Lombard
Algonquin
Palatine
Jacksonville
Geneva
West Chicago
McHenry
Springfield
German Valley
Peotone
Brookfield
Princeton
Lustron House, 49 Maple St, Danville, IN 46122
Kentucky boasts some 36 remaining examples of Lustron houses. These homes were said to "provide new and richer experiences for the whole family, where mother has far more hours, youngsters have far fewer worries, and far more leisure for dad."
http://www.lustronpreservation.org/lustron-library[ dead link ]
Over a dozen Lustron houses known to have been constructed in New Orleans, about half still existed as of February 2019, some in substantially altered condition. All documented Lustron houses erected in New Orleans were Winchester models. A possibly unique "double bungalow" constructed of two Lustron houses joined together is located at 9412-14 Stroelitz Street. [7]
There are a number of Lustron houses located in Brentwood. Many of them are original and many of them have been sided, have additions, or have had the windows replaced with vinyl. There are also 3 in St. Charles, Missouri that are all owned by the same owner, and one next to I-70 in Wentzville. There is also one in Velda Village Missouri and two in St. Louis City on McDonald in the Tower Grove South neighborhood, No. 00804.
There are also 5 Lustron homes in the Kansas City area near 85th and Wornall Road. One of them was the display model and residence of the local sales representative. Local legend says that the salesman came home one day and told his wife that he no longer had a job because the company was bankrupt, but they still had their house.
In Kansas City there are at least 10 or more. This includes the Kansas City suburbs. In south Kansas City there are at least 6 in a mile radius. Three together on one street. Two are found north of Kansas City in Cameron.
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Northwest
Northeast
Central
Southwest
Southeast
There are at least four of these homes in the Kanawha City section of Charleston, WV, and four located in the Morgantown, WV area.
Wisconsin received about 100 or so Lustron homes, built between 1948 and 1950. [36]
Appleton
Beloit
Black River Falls
Burlington
Eau Claire
Fond du Lac
Green Bay
Hillsboro
Kenosha
La Crosse
Lake Geneva
Madison
Marshall
Menasha
Middleton
7120 North Ave, Middleton, WI Yellow.
Milwaukee
In Milwaukee, 15 Lustron homes survive, as of 2014, in a cluster around Lincoln Creek north of Capitol Drive and Cooper Park. These are mostly the Winchester model, but the home at 5520 W. Philip Pl., which has a "unique blue and yellow color scheme, is almost certainly one of the early Esquire “demonstration” homes, which first appeared in 1946." [38]
Monona
Mount Horeb
New Glarus
Oshkosh
Portage
1125 West Wisconsin St, Portage, WI
Shullsburg
Verona
Waterford
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