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Lustron Research Founder, author of the Lustron Home

Upcoming Events and Past Interviews

Lombard Historical Society/Village of Lombard Presents -FootSteps from the Past- Lombard Lustrons with Thomas Fetters (2000)

2000- Lombard Historical Society -  Footstep's from the Past - Lombard Lustron's with your Host Jean Conner, Volunteer Coordinator, LHS.  In this Presentation, Thomas Fetters, local Lombard Author, Historian, and Lustron expert, talks about the significance of Lustrons to Lombard, Illinois, and their history. He takes us around town, beautiful showing us the remaining 36 original Lustrons.  We wrap the presentation with Thomas taking us on a tour of one of our Lombard Lustrons and explaining all the beautiful features of these homes of tomorrow.  So join us for this Mid- Century walk thru Lombards Lustrons.   The presentation ends by inviting the community to Lombards Lustron Home Tour 2000.

BackStory with Larry Potash WGN TV April 2022

 April 2, 2022, WGN TV Chicago on Backstory with Larry Potash. Larry interviewed Tom Fetters about his 35-year Lustron Research project that started with his daughter Jean's high school history project.  Features two local Illinois Lustron Residents who show off their homes to Larry and what makes them so unique and loveable.

 

WTTW Interview from 2004

In 2004 Rich Samuels from WTTW Channel 11 Chicago did a special on a Lustron Home in Lombard, Illinois, after finding an old website about Lombard Lustron and featuring Tom Fetters, author of "The Lustron Home: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment."


Chicago Trib Article -5/18/02

Enamel and Steel- ByBy Mary Beth Klatt, The Chicago Tribune 5/18/02

  First off: Lustron home expert Tom Fetters doesn't live in a Lustron, he lives in a ranch house in Lombard, which he contends is the Lustron capital of the world.  

 "The sense of being interested in saving Lustron homes would be akin to the sense of saving the Tucker automobiles," Fetters says. "The two are contemporary, both used ex-war plants as factories and both failed in a fairly short time with associated congressional inquiries. However, there were only 80 or so Tucker automobiles, and 2,500 Lustrons, so the house was a greater success. 

Click Here to Read Article
The last Lustron

The Last Lustrons - Chicago Reader 4/17/03

The Last of the Lustrons:

Even houses of steel don’t last forever.

by Mary Beth Klatt  Chicago Reader

Interview with Thomas Fetters

 April 17, 2003 

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Video Presentations with some of our Partners

US Modernist Radio Podcast Interview Tom Fetters and Virgina Faust

The twelfth episode of US Modernist Radio featuring Tom Fetters and Virginia Faust talking about the architectural phenomenon, Lustron houses. These were kits that built metal houses with only a screwdriver. Tom Fetters is a national expert on these homes, and Virginia Faust is the NCMH expert on them, as well as a realtor. 

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News Paper Interviews with Tom Fetters

List of PDF Newspaper Interviews over the years with Tom Fetters

Chicago Trib 11-24-96 Lustron - (pdf)Download
It's A Steel Suburban Life 12-31-99 - (pdf)Download
Lombard Spectator 5-10-00 Lombard Celebrates 50th Anniversary Lustron (pdf)Download
History project Becomes Dad’s Hobby By Diane Dassow Daily Herald 3-10-2000 Neighbor Section (pdf)Download
The Last Lustrons - Reader Chicago 4-18-03 Vol 7 Issue 28 (pdf)Download
Full Metal Homes Daily Southtown 5-21-99 - (pdf)Download
A Door Closes on the Past - The Washington Post (pdf)Download

US Modernist

USModernist® Library is the world's most extensive open digital collection of major US 20th-century architecture magazines, with over 4 million downloadable pages - all free to access. Access to legacy publications has never been more critical for preservation, and now architects, realtors, owners, sellers, and buyers have an easy way to research 20th-century architecture magazine coverage. Old architecture magazines are left rotting in attics, basements, libraries, and offices all across America - if they haven't already been thrown away. We are proud to partner with them on many projects.                                   CLICK HERE FOR ACCESS TO THE LIBRARY

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We are still under construction, pardon our dust. Please be patient while we work on the site.

We are still under construction, pardon our dust. Please be patient while we work on the site.

We are still under construction, pardon our dust. Please be patient while we work on the site.

We are still under construction, pardon our dust. Please be patient while we work on the site.

We are still under construction, pardon our dust. Please be patient while we work on the site.

Our Partners

McFarland Press publisher of The Lustron Home
Lombard Historical Society
Lustron Facebook Group-For people who own or like the 50's prefab homes made by the Lustron Corpor.
Lustron Homes History & Preservation Forum -A forum for fans and aficionados of Lustron homes.
Lustron Home Registration
Drik Fletcher’s photographer of Lustron home
Pines Preservation Guild - Who Stores Lustron Parts
Carlisle Area Historical Society Lustron Home Museum

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