This Lustron home (with attached two-car garage), part of the post-WWII home-of-the-future boom, is made of porcelain-enameled steel panels.
The National Register listing at (
visit link) identifies it as the "Coambs, Norris and Harriet, Lustron House" or "Coambs-Morrow House." It is located at 411 Bowser Avenue. From the National Register listing:
"Completed in the spring of 1950, the dwelling at 411 Bowser Avenue
in Chesterton, Indiana, is one of the last manufactured and
erected Lustron homes (#2329) of approximately 2500 sold and
produced by the Lustron Corporation. Yet, today, it still retains
its complete structural and architectural integrity in an
unaltered manner.
The Coambs Lustron house, which is considered a one-story ranch
style design, has no basement, but is erected on a concrete slab.
It contains three bedrooms (unlike the majority erected which have
two bedrooms) with living room, dining area, kitchen, utility and
bathroom totaling 1200 square feet of living space.
411 Bowser is also one of few Lustron houses with a Lustron two car
garage. As identified previously, the entire exterior of the
Lustron house and garage are covered with porcelain enameled steel
panels. This applies to the roof shingles, roof overhang
materials (including gutters and downspouts), gable ends and
exterior wall coverings. The exterior wall panels are two-feet
square. The steel exterior doors are likewise finished in the
same manner with glass panel inserts. The stationary and casement
windows are aluminum framed.
The Lustron home inherits many of its qualities from two porcelain
enameled steel houses which were displayed at the Chicago "Century
of Progress" Exposition in 1933-34. One of these, the Stan-Steel
House, incorporated a steel framing system to which the porcelain
enameled steel exterior panels were attached. The second, the
Armco-Ferro House, had no separate steel framing system but used
formed steel panels which became load-bearing interior and
exterior walls and were covered with porcelain enamel. Ferro
Corporation claimed to offer the world's first porcelain enameled
steel house in October 1932. (Lustron provided a steel framing
system for the attachment of its porcelain enamel panels in and
out, similar to Stan-Steel.)
In 1935, the Armco-Ferro house was moved from the Chicago Fair
location to a site in Beverly Shores, Indiana, where it remains
occupied today. In 1986, it was placed on the National Register
of Historic Places. The Coambs-Morrow Lustron House in Chesterton
is located just a few miles from this historic Armco-Ferro
dwelling."
See the Old House Web article at (
visit link) for a detailed overview of Lustrons.
I waymarked the previously mentioned nearby Armco-Ferro house at (
visit link)