Glad you captured that. I always enjoy driving by and seeing it, knowing that probably 1% of other drivers have any idea that the house is significant.
This stretch of Kessler really needs sidewalks on both sides of the street. Amazing that a street named after one of this city's leading figures in the "City Beautiful" movement is basically unwalkable.
I have noted this house before and figured it to be a Lustron house (well, I didn't know the term, but I'm slightly familiar with the history).
I agree on the sidewalks. Especially since this house is directly across the street from two schools, and several blocks from another!
If memory serves, I think there's another Lustron, sort of a putty gray, on BR Ave. somewhere between about Rosslyn and Burlington. But I'm too lazy to check Google Street View. :-)
If memory serves, the one on Indianola isn't in the best shape. We looked at a house right next door when it was for sale and remember remarking to my wife what a shame it was the lustron next door hadn't been taken care of. This was 2-3 years ago.
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I have always loved the bowling balls as landscape ornaments at this house.
It is one of the few local surviving "Lustron" homes made entirely with enameled steel surfaces.
Glad you captured that. I always enjoy driving by and seeing it, knowing that probably 1% of other drivers have any idea that the house is significant.
This stretch of Kessler really needs sidewalks on both sides of the street. Amazing that a street named after one of this city's leading figures in the "City Beautiful" movement is basically unwalkable.
I have noted this house before and figured it to be a Lustron house (well, I didn't know the term, but I'm slightly familiar with the history).
I agree on the sidewalks. Especially since this house is directly across the street from two schools, and several blocks from another!
If memory serves, I think there's another Lustron, sort of a putty gray, on BR Ave. somewhere between about Rosslyn and Burlington. But I'm too lazy to check Google Street View. :-)
Okay...too much time on my hands. The Lustron house on BR Ave is two doors east of the VP on the south side of the street.
There's also one on the west side of Indianola in the 5600 block. I remeber from riding my bike when I lived in the neighborhood.
its a kit house. you could buy the parts at Sears via catalogue. and many a Chatard senior have been run off that lawn trying to steal a ball or two.
Sears sold kit houses, but I don't recall that they sold Lustron's.
BTW: Wikipedia claims there are only 1800 surviving Lustron homes in the US.
There's one on Hawthorne Ln in Community Heights, and it's even rarer due to having the Lustron garage alongside.
If memory serves, the one on Indianola isn't in the best shape. We looked at a house right next door when it was for sale and remember remarking to my wife what a shame it was the lustron next door hadn't been taken care of. This was 2-3 years ago.
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