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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 on-site and the house was assembled piece-by-piece from a special Lustron Corporation delivery truck.
Dundullimal Homestead is a heritage-listed former pastoral station and now cultural facility, house museum and events centre. The Australian colonial slab hut-type homestead is located approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of Dubbo in the Orana region of New South Wales, on the bank of the Macquarie River.
Whether or not a slab hut was lined, inside or out, depended on the economic means, the energy and skill, and the taste of the occupants. Beyond the need for simple weatherproofing lay the desire for some aesthetic satisfaction, the wish to make one's dwelling place pleasing in appearance as well as comfortable to occupy. [29] [30]
Construction of the Xanadu house in Kissimmee, Florida, began with the pouring of a concrete slab base and the erection of a tension ring 40 feet (12 m) in diameter to anchor the domed roof of what would become the "Great Room" of the house. A pre-shaped vinyl balloon was formed and attached to the ring, and then inflated by air pressure from ...
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.
Slabsides is the log cabin built by naturalist John Burroughs and his son on a nine-acre (3.6 ha) wooded and hilly tract in 1895 one mile (1.6 km) west of Riverby, his home in West Park, New York.
Split-Level House. A split-level home (sometimes called a tri-level home) is a style of house in which the floor levels are staggered.There are typically two short sets of stairs, one running upward to a bedroom level, and one going downward toward a basement area.
At the beginning of the twentieth-century, with the growth of suburban areas of detached houses, terrace houses in Australia fell into disfavour, along with the inner city areas, and many became considered slums. In the 1950s, urban renewal programs were often aimed at eradicating them entirely, not infrequently in favour of high-rise development.