Suburban Steel: Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corp
(Part of the Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series)
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Suburban Steel chronicles the rise and fall of the Lustron Corporation, once the largest and most completely industrialized housing company in U.S. history. Beginning in 1947, Lustron manufactured porcelain-enameled steel houses in a one-million-square-foot plant in Columbus, Ohio. With forty million dollars in federal funds and support from the highest levels of the Truman administration, the company planned to produce one hundred houses...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0814252737
ISBN13:9780814252734
Release Date:November 2015
Publisher:Ohio State University Press
Length:262 Pages
Weight:0.86 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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