This one-story ranch type, all-steel dwelling, installed over a full basement, is a Lustron™️ Westchester 2-bedroom model. Lustron built prefabricated steel housing intended for returning soldiers after World War II. This house features a low pitched gable roof and has a cutaway front porch with steel post and tripartite window groups with side crank windows. Inside there are built-in bookcases, cabinets and vanity. All interior and exterior wall surfaces (including the ceiling and roof) are enamel-coated steel. The exterior color is "dove grey."
Pre-formed panels were transported on tractor trailers and assembled on site. Assembly and associated construction were by Frank W. O'Connell, Binghamton.
A 2007 Lustron Survey performed for the New York State Historic Preservation Office identified 1950 as the building date and noted that the kitchen was remodelled in 2006 and the bathroom in 2007.
Included in
Forest Home Historic District with USN 10906.000191. To access the Building-Structure Inventory Form (sometimes referred to as the "Blue Form"), and from which some of the details above come, follow these
Lookup Instructions. Also available from the same database location is the 2007 survey of this house, recorded on a NYS Lustron Survey Inventory Form.
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