Comments on: Lustron House in Jackson http://misspreservation.com/2010/06/09/lustron-house-in-jackson/ It ain't all moonlight and magnolias Mon, 28 May 2012 12:44:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thomas Rosell http://misspreservation.com/2010/06/09/lustron-house-in-jackson/#comment-8047 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:53:22 +0000 http://misspreservation.com/?p=5595#comment-8047 The three in Jackson, and the ones in Natchez and Clarksdale may have been the only Lustron’s ever built in Mississippi according to this 1949 letter from Lustron’s President Carl Strandlund.

http://www.lustronpreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/lustron-pdf-factsheet.pdf

The Lustron factory was located in Columbus Ohio. Cicero, Illinois is actually the site of Lustron’s parent company Chicago Vitreous Enamel Corporation.

]]> By: ELMalvaney http://misspreservation.com/2010/06/09/lustron-house-in-jackson/#comment-1995 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:39:09 +0000 http://misspreservation.com/?p=5595#comment-1995 Thanks for tracking down that Flickr group–those pictures of the construction are very interesting (I took the liberty of adding the link to Joey Harrison’s set in your comment above).

]]> By: Susan Allen http://misspreservation.com/2010/06/09/lustron-house-in-jackson/#comment-1992 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:38:09 +0000 http://misspreservation.com/?p=5595#comment-1992 As usual, you sent me on a hunting expedition. There is an interesting photo pool on http://www.flickr.com/groups/lustron/pool, and the selections by Joey Harrison include some vintage 1949 photos of the house being constructed and original interiors, as well as current interior shots. For serious Lustron research, there is also a book by Thomas T. Fetters, The Lustron Home: The History of a Postwar Prefabicated Housing Experiment.

]]> By: Susan Allen http://misspreservation.com/2010/06/09/lustron-house-in-jackson/#comment-1990 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:37:45 +0000 http://misspreservation.com/?p=5595#comment-1990 Thanks for this fascinating information!

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