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Led by Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund, who had worked with constructing prefabricated gas stations, Lustron offered a home that would "defy weather, wear, and time." [2] Strandlund's Lustron Corporation, a division of the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Corporation, set out to construct 15,000 homes in 1947 and 30,000 in 1948. [1]
Book of rambler and ranch-type homes: designs and floor plans for 31 practical homes, 3rd ed. Home Plan Book Co., 1953. 92 low cost ranch homes, by Richard B. Pollman, Home Planners, Inc., 1955. Ranch homes for today, by Alwin Cassens, Jr., Archway Press, 1956. New modern ranch homes for town or country living, National Plan Service, 1956.
Having been built in the 1940s, it was outfitted in late-1940s design and decoration. The furnishings and decor highlighted the industrial boom of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Packed with the era's fashionable furniture, books, toys, food, and magazines, the 1950s House provided a window into mid-century visual culture.
Southern I-House style home. An I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout. [15] New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney [16] Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end chimneys at the interior of either side of the house [16]
Dingbat building named "The Mary & Jane" with styled balconies A stucco box. In a 1998 Los Angeles Times editorial about the area's evolving standards for development, the birth of the dingbat is retold (as a cautionary tale): "By mid-century, a development-driven southern California was in full stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, draining waterways and filling in wetlands ...
A Victory House on Finch Avenue West in Willowdale, Toronto, which was part of a 140-home development in c.1950, only 32 of which remain in 2022.. In Canada, a strawberry box house is a house, built during World War II [1] and into the 1950s to 1960s, in a style that uses a square or rectangular foundation.
Pages in category "Houses completed in 1950" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. ... Lustron Home No. 02102; M. S.D. Merritt House; N. Nagel ...
Pages in category "1950s architecture" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Brutalist ...