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With enameled steel panels inside and out, as well as steel framing, the homes stood out next to more traditional dwellings made of wood and plaster. Lustron homes were usually built on concrete slab foundations with no basement. However, about 40 Lustron homes have been reported to have basements. [9] Their sturdy steel frame was constructed ...
Lustron House, pre-fabricated, all steel, porcelain-enamel, 2 bedrooms on concrete slab, built in 1948, 4647 3rd Street South, Arlington, Arlington County, VA, demolished 2007. 5201 12th Street, South, Arlington, VA, surveyed by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), [35] demolished October 24, 2016. 130 Sunset Dr, Danville, VA
The houses used Crittall Hope windows. [3] The main structure is of steel columns spaced to take standard metal windows between them. The central spine of the building which supports the first floor beams is carried on tubular steel columns. The framework is clad on the lower storey with rendering on metal lath.
A Boise startup that built homes from shipping containers rose to national acclaim five years ago. Today, the company is in transition. In 2019, workers at IndieDwell drove one of its steel ...
A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use, especially as barracks, made from a 210° portion of a cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. It was designed during the First World War by the Canadian-American-British engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen .
In 1946, the Great Lakes Steel Corporation claimed "the term 'Quonset,' as applied to builders and building materials, is a trade mark owned by the Great Lakes Steel Corporation." [5] But the word is often used generically. Today similar structures are made by many contractors in countries around the world.
The company and all 22 houses were located in Troy, Ohio. [1] Sixteen of the houses built by the company, in addition to three garages and a shed, were listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1989. [2] Ten of the houses are located on Hobart Circle and Hobart Drive in the Hobart Circle Historic District.
Kit house: a type of pre-fabricated house made of pre-cut, numbered pieces of lumber. Sears Catalog Home: an owner-built "kit" houses that were sold by the Sears, Roebuck and Co. corporation via catalog orders from 1906 to 1940. Laneway house: a type of Canadian house that is constructed behind a normal single-family home that opens onto a back ...