This is a lustron house. It was an attempt, more than 50 years ago, to provide low cost, low maintenance, affordable housing for the American people.
This example is located in Ames, Iowa. There are thousands of these across the country.
They are constructed of enameled steel, inside & out – no paint required, ever – wash the outside down with water from a hose when they get a little dusty.
This one is unusual because it is two stories high.
Two very good books on this type of house are Suburban Steel – the Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945-1951 by Douglas Knerr & The Lustron Home – the History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment by Thomas T. Fetters.
Where is this house in Ames? Why have I never seen it?
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