Suburban Steel: Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corp

by Douglas Knerr

Book Overview

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"