A Lustron Legacy

Arlington Virginia's effort to move an preserve a Lustron House. The house is expected to be shipped to New York's Museum of Modern Art.

[@bruble1]

All 3 Lustrons around S 12th St & S Frederick St in Arlington VA are gone. My family owned the Lustron featured in this video (5201 S 12th St) from 1972 to 2005. After my parents passed, I lived in this house from 1995 to 2005. I'm so happy it has been restored and preserved at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus. I'm was the narrator in this video, BTW.

[@carolyngeiger3634]

Great video. Thank you, these homes have always fascinated me.

[@nancyhicksgribble9799]

I'm from Columbus and our historical society museum will have a whole lustron home on display in the museum- so excited!

[@cherriberri7161]

Amazing! It’s too bad something similar isn’t being used today, it would be perfect for the environment and tremendously cost effective. Personally I would love one of my own. Thank you for sharing and enlightening us with this fabulous bit of American history

[@davee430]

Really interesting and informative Excellent subject and presentation

[@jvarela965]

We have several here in the Sarasota Florida area. An idea years ahead of it's time. With modern recycling methods this could be a god-send to developing nations. I have been told there were Lustrons built in Cuba as well.

[@tulefrog]

My sister just found this video. We lived in a Lustron across the street from this house at 5200 S. 12th Street in 1954-55. I looked on Google Maps and it doesn't look like our old house is there anymore, either. Thanks for sharing your video

[@pcno2832]

There was a solitary Lustron house on one of the side roads that lead to the beach, off Warren road in Framingham, MA, up until about 15 years ago. It has since been replaced with a generic looking colonial box. I hope the owners were able to find a taker for the old structure; I don't know how it would have held up here, with all the salt we use in the winter. Enameled steel probably was too expensive for most housing, especially with the size of houses today, but I can't think of another type of construction that could be packed away, stored and rebuilt as easily.

[@gerardhaubert8210]

Am glad I had the opportunity to see one of these houses

[@theresanorris9512]

My family lived in a Lustron home for nearly 50 years . My parents bought the home in 1963 Its located on highway 340 in Brazil, Indiana . I was 11 months old . My mother lived in the home until 2011. There is another home in Brazil, Indiana. On highway 40 ,but its been completely remodeled. And one on the east side of Terre Haute, Indiana. That I know i of. I been doing some research on these homes . And the history is very interesting to me .

[@shanitaanderson7646]

I live in the city of Aurora, IL and our preservation committee will be investigating our Lustron inventory. We think we have 6-7 existing homes left, so we are looking into tracking down the owners to hopefully obtain information on those existing properties. This video was very informative!

[@loriloristuff]

There are FOUR within 1 miles of my present residence. I LOVE THESE, but they don't offer enough room for my family. Perhaps in retirement.

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

We need an update.

[@bandilou]

Very cool! I live in Columbus, Ohio and I never knew the factory was here. There is a Lustron in Marion, Ohio that my friend's dad helped assemble.

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

The factory still stamds.

[@moiraeve1]

It's interesting to me that in wealthy Arlington County, we can come up with the will and funding to dissemble this house and move it to MoMA; yet we find it near impossible to come up with funding to build/renovate group home housing to accommodate outgoing residents from the Northern Virginia Training Centers, and others on the ID waiver waiting list.

[@ozarkjuggalo]

Lustrons would be great for my nation.

[@watchoutz6969]

Well, Im going to rebuild a entire neighbor hood of Lustrons near my house.

[@patriciavalentine9528]

Hello -- just wondered how your project is progressing?

[@TheMikester307]

Wow! I've heard of these! I think I drove by one once in a small Kansas town. Gotta go into one some day!

[@piercehawke8021]

I remember a Lustron on 25th St.between Glebe Rd and Columbus St

[@earlpatterson369]

I see they no longer made this house... That's sad I don't mind to live in like that house!

[@misskatzlife5892]

they need these housing in san francisco to help with the housing shortage.

[@ozarkjuggalo]

I lived in one for a year or two as a kid. They should make prefabs more like that now.

[@ArlingtonCoVA]

The video's producer, Libby Austin, responds, "Yes, the houses were really cool, and offer some great ideas for affordable housing in these times, but they were not build to last forever, nor were they really expandable, from what I understand."

[@jvarela965]

We have 4 Lustrons in the Sarasota - Bradenton area in Florida. One sat on what later became a valuable lot and the owner tried giving it away to whomever could move it but there were no takers and it was demolished. :(

[@jvarela965]

We had 2 here in Sarasota, Florida, one was destroyed by someone who tried to give it away for free but I believe no takers.

[@ericz8318]

Two still exist in Auburn, Indiana and im sure there are more in my area..

[@EmilyRae100]

WE LIVE IN A LUSTRON HOME IN SOMERSET OHIO

[@owenmason6690]

I lived in one for 20 years my dad still dose it's in Angola Indiana on Gilmore st I hated living there I was always embarrassed to bring friends over as a kid

[@sarabetz]

Sorry you were embarrassed as a child. They really were a work of art and a great piece of history.