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From its plant in Columbus, Ohio (the former Curtiss-Wright factory), the corporation eventually constructed 2,498 Lustron homes between 1948 and 1950. [3] The houses sold for between $8,500 and $9,500, according to a March 1949 article in the Columbus Dispatch —about 25 percent less than comparable conventional housing.
It was built in 1950, this was one of the last manufactured Lustron homes (#2329) of the 2500 sold and produced by the Lustron Corporation. [2] The house has a Lustron two-car detached garage and is located in a pre-World War II subdivision with some homes dating before World War I. [2] The house is a one-story ranch style with no basement.
The Phoenix, designed by Laing and built by themselves as well as partners McAlpine and Henry Boot, [3] looked much like an AIROH with a central front door. It was a two-bedroom in-situ preform design with steel frame, asbestos clad walls and an innovative roof of tubular steel poles with steel panels attached.
Asbestos is present in many homes built before 1981 in insulation, vinyl flooring, or spray-on surfacing materials. Crumbling insulation in an older home can indicate asbestos. Homes built before ...
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 ...
Twenty houses were originally built and all still remain. [1] The elevated asbestos cement clad houses have a plan form and design suited to local climatic conditions. The houses have three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and living room and a front porch. The design of the houses is in the shape of a "T" - hence giving the name of Type T Houses. [1]
[1] The Elevated Houses are significant as examples of Australian Government housing on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands with a plan form and design suited to local climatic conditions. The two houses are larger variations of standard "Type 2" houses and their siting to the far south of West Island, near the administrator's residence, indicates ...
The five houses, which are numbered 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8 Jermain Street, occupy lots averaging 0.15 acres (610 m 2) in size, for a total area of 0.72 acres (2,900 m 2). Four of the five are on the east side. All except 1 Jermain are intact enough to be considered contributing properties to the district's historic character. [2]