Thomas Kotch and Wendy Glottke were graduate students in Binghamton, N.Y., when they first saw houses from the late 1940s and early ’50s made entirely of porcelain and steel. “There were two ...

The Lustron Corporation’s steel homes were built to house GIs after World War II. Now, only 1,200 are estimated to exist in the United States today. This Webster Groves Lustron home is one of a few ...

As a youngster in the 1950s, I remember my folks pointing out to me a house on West Street in Pittsfield. Because the home looked sort of like a porcelain-enameled eatery I had seen in Albany, N.Y., I ...

Eight cool facts about one of Rochester’s most interesting houses (and its owner). A little slice of homebuilding history sits quietly in a northeast Rochester neighborhood. Invented in the 1940s to ...

Some vintage homes can gain cult followings - Frank Lloyd Wrights, Sears Kit homes, Victorians, Cape Codders. But one home type that I think deserves just as much attention and enthusiasm is a Lustron ...

Brian and Eric Campbell are dismantling one piece of the American dream in hopes of fulfilling another: turning a profit. Until recently, the brothers lived at 300 S. Gould Rd. in a Lustron home, a ...

Our home is being watched. Men in dark SUVs idle in front of our maize yellow ranch, jot down notes, then speed off. They send boilerplate letters inviting me and my husband, Andrea, to discuss a cash ...

Buck Holzemer lives in a blue steel box that shimmers under the setting sun. Even the inside walls are steel, he noted, knocking on a kitchen wall to prompt a tinny reverberation. But Holzemer's ...

PERRY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Sue Williams wasn't exactly impressed when she learned the little house down the street was a Lustron home. She'd requested a showing when she saw the house was for sale, ...

As a child, Carlisle resident Scott James didn't think twice about his grandmother Corda James' steel and porcelain enamel home. “Now, looking back, it was very unique,” James said. Last week, the ...