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  • From: Chris Calloway <ifoufo AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: raleigh modernism
  • Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:00:31 -0700 (PDT)

--- John Iwaniszek <Not AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't there a pre-fab 50's stainless steel house in
> Durham as well?

the lustron locator lists one at 2421 perkins rd, as
well as three in chapel hill:

http://home.earthlink.net/~lustronlocator/state.html

here's a picture of one in new bern:

http://home.earthlink.net/~ronusny/PhotoLustron/NCphoto/NCphoto.html

you can rent one for a vacation:

http://www.innlog.com/lodging/NY/9344.html

fema relocated one:

http://www.fema.gov/ehp/lustron.shtm

check out the links section on this site:

http://www.piranhagraphix.com/Lustron/

other lustron resources:

http://lustron.org/
http://home.earthlink.net/~lustronlocator/
http://www.wosu.org/tv/lustron/history.php
http://members.tripod.com/~Strandlund/
http://www.recentpast.org/types/resident/lustron/
http://home.earthlink.net/~ronusny/
http://www.oldhouseweb.com/stories/Detailed/12270.shtml
http://radio.weblogs.com/0119080/stories/2003/03/04/galleryLustronMania.html

another brand of metal house was "general houses,
inc." not much survives about them. i don't think they
were as extreme as lustron homes with all the built in
metal fixtures. lustron homes are currently attracting
the interest of people with extreme environmental
allergies as possibly safe places to live.

buckminster fuller designed a house with an aluminum
skin that looks sort of similar to some hurricane
proof houses you might see at the beach (warning,
ridiculous use of flash):

http://www.hfmgv.org/dymaxion/

this guy is currently making urban tin cans:

http://www.urbanlofts.com/townframe.html

of course, i have in mind a different kind of metal
house for me:

http://www.kodiaksteelhomes.com/default.asp

really slick css! from norway!:

http://www.lovetann.com/en/index.html

(oops. no. it's flash.)

a really good draftsman designs a house:

http://rogerdean.com/architecture/

rick sawyer: i *think* there's more than one
international style house in trinity park, all on
east/west streets south of markham. i think one is on
the south side of watts street school, which is, yep,
on dacian. i spent a day working the polls at the
school once and couldn't stop staring at that house
across the street.

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