NDSU landscaping and architecture programs have been busy the last few months...
They were involved in the Extreme Home Makeover this past summer and tomorrow they will be putting up a Lustron house.
http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=13068§ion=homepageLustron house to be rebuilt
Herald Staff Report
Published Thursday, October 12, 2006
· The Grand Forks "Lustron" house is ready to go up.
The metal home, which was disassembled and removed from its original home on Lincoln Drive after the 1997 flood, is going to be rebuilt at the Myra Museum on Friday, with help from NDSU construction management, interior design and landscape architecture students.
The house, a steel Lustron-brand kit house erected in the late 1940s, is one of only about 2,500 such steel houses sold nationwide in the years after World War II. They were designed as affordable housing for returning soldiers.
As many as 25 Lustron homes were built in North Dakota, including one in Fargo and another in Finley.
The historical significance of the home meant the city was required to put it back together after it was removed from Lincoln Drive. The museum board agreed to make the home a permanent part of the facility.
It's been about five years since the 1,200-square-foot, single-story, three-bedroom house was taken down. In 2001, it was put into storage to wait until the flood protection project was completed.
The home is made almost completely of steel, with the exception of the concrete foundation, floor slab and some copper piping. It has walls made of three layers: an outer layer of steel panels, a middle layer of insulation and an inner layer of steel panels finished in porcelain enamel.
It took about nine full days of work to disassemble the home in 2001.
Friday, the Myra Museum on Belmont Road and 24th Avenue South will host a Lustron "house-raising" event. The public is welcome to attend