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Catalog homes like these can be found throughout Villa Park and Lombard. They were well designed homes made with pre cut lumber and hardware that was shipped to the consumer by rail from stores like Sears and Wards. The buyer looked through a catalog, purchased a lot, and had the pieces shipped to them. The rafters on these homes have numbers on them that corresponded tothe instructions to put them together.

They were built between the1900 and the 1940’s. The most common manufacturing companies were Aladdin, Lewis-Liberty, and Sterling out of Bay City Michigan. To avoid waste, the homes became standard in their floor plans, that it is hard to tell which catalog they originated from. The historical societies in both towns have some of these homes documented.

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Lombard Lustron Homes

These Porcelain and Steel homes were built in post World War II.

There were two styles built the Westchester and the Newport and the greatest concentration of these homes is in Lombard. They were created by Carl Strandlund in the late 1940’s. They are all steel, inside and out. The company that started them was Chicago Vitreous Enamel Co who also made the steel panels for buildings such as White Castle and Amoco. There is a book written by Tom Fetters called “the Lustron Home” that has extensive information about these homes.