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Some town had to be the Lustron Capital of Kansas… and so Great Bend said “That’s us! That’s us! We are the Lustron Capital of Kansas.”
Great Bend has, I think, 19 Lustron homes
At the Barton County Historical Museum just south of the Arkansas River at Great Bend, they’ve recently reconstructed a Lustron home.
While I’d seen them from the outside before, I’d never been in one. I didn’t know – hadn’t thought about it – but the interiors are also metal – metal walls, built-in drawers and cabinets. That seems like a somewhat harsh and cold environment. But they had their place, I suppose – cheap and quick housing after WWII.
The Lustron kitchen.
The dining room.
One side of the living room.
The other side. My grandparents had a TV similar to that one.
The dressing area of the bedroom. There were two bedrooms and a bath. And that’s about it in this house of metal. I wonder what the place sounded like during a hail storm.
These would make WONDERFUL——MCS “SAFE HOME”
No chemicals that most homes have –if they are made out of metal!!!!!!!!
Hail storms. When Larry was in college, he spent a Summer in Hawaii picking pineapple for Dole. He slept in a cabin with a metal roof. It rains a lot in Hawaii, and he could really hear the pounding rain as he laid in bed. I can only imagine how loud a metal house would be in a hail storm.
Those are neat houses. I wonder why that didn’t take off. I wonder what kind of metal they used. I’ll have to look at the links you provided and see if there are answers to the many questions I have. It seems like a good idea, if they’re sturdy and wouldn’t deteriorate over time, corrode or rust.
The one thing I noticed from your pictures is that there is not much hanging on the walls, only a mirror I noticed. I wonder if it was hard to hang pictures in those homes.
Janet
There were calendars and such on the wall, all held in place with magnetic hangers. That’s a pretty cool idea. No holes in the walls and you can move stuff around as much as you wish.
I want one!!