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Post by Marty on Apr 9, 2024 18:50:20 GMT -5
I relate Swiss Colony to cheese and sausage baskets.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 9, 2024 19:04:38 GMT -5
Anyone remember Lustron steel homes? There are 10 in Minneapolis, six of them in one block on the South Side. They are very valuable these days. I had it in my mind that Sears shipped them, but I'm not sure of that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustron_house
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Post by howard lee on Apr 9, 2024 19:12:52 GMT -5
Anyone remember Lustron steel homes? There are 10 in Minneapolis, six of them in one block on the South Side. They are very valuable these days. I had it in my mind that Sears shipped them, but I'm not sure of that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustron_house
Wow... what a crazy concept for building material for this style of house; steel, known for its tensile strength. It must be like a delicatessen walk-in, in Minneapolis in the winter.
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Post by John B on Apr 9, 2024 19:31:24 GMT -5
Anyone remember Lustron steel homes? There are 10 in Minneapolis, six of them in one block on the South Side. They are very valuable these days. I had it in my mind that Sears shipped them, but I'm not sure of that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustron_house
There is one here in Columbus. Of course.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 9, 2024 19:37:56 GMT -5
Wow... what a crazy concept for building material for this style of house; steel, known for its tensile strength. It must be like a delicatessen walk-in, in Minneapolis in the winter.
We ran a story in 2019 about the house you posted images of, which was on the market for $350K. The owner said the heating system was strange, but effective. A conventional furnace pumped hot air into compartments above the metal ceiling, warming the panels. Heat rises, of course, but the owner said the system still kept the house warm in winter.
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Post by factorychef on Apr 9, 2024 20:13:54 GMT -5
There is a house in Vinton like that in Vinton and it's been there for years and still looks brand new. You can see it from the train depot.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 9, 2024 20:59:27 GMT -5
There is a house in Vinton like that and it's been there for years and still looks brand new. You can see it from the train depot. What I wonder about is the wiring, living in a wall-to-wall conductor. Cool factoid: homeowners hang artworks with magnets.
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Post by Dub on Apr 9, 2024 22:56:50 GMT -5
Anyone remember Lustron steel homes? There are 10 in Minneapolis, six of them in one block on the South Side. They are very valuable these days. I had it in my mind that Sears shipped them, but I'm not sure of that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustron_house
I don’t know how many were built in Des Moines but I’d guess more than a hundred. Suddenly they were everywhere. There probably aren’t many left standing but, in the day, they were all over the place. Cedar Rapids still has some standing. On edit: Funny thing though, I was never in one. They weren’t often built in established professional neighborhoods, usually in new or blue collar neighborhoods. Still, it’s odd that I didn’t have any friends who lived in one.
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Post by millring on Apr 10, 2024 4:44:44 GMT -5
It's hard to get one into a body shop for repairs.
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Post by Marshall on Apr 10, 2024 7:50:06 GMT -5
Heat rises, of course, but the owner said the system still kept the house warm in winter. At a building science conference I would go to, there'd be a class on building environments. And the instructer would start out with a question. "Raise your hand if you think heat rises?" Then he'd say, "All you who raised your hand failed the course. Heat doesn't rise. Cold air is heavier and sinks, pushing warm air up."
It's gravity, Baby. I'm just sayin'
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Post by John B on Apr 10, 2024 8:04:10 GMT -5
Heat rises, of course, but the owner said the system still kept the house warm in winter. At a building science conference I would go to, there'd be a class on building environments. And the instructer would start out with a question. "Raise your hand if you think heat rises?" Then he'd say, "All you who raised your hand failed the course. Heat doesn't rise. Cold air is heavier and sinks, pushing warm air up."
It's gravity, Baby. I'm just sayin' My KC house had circa 1950 radiant heat, copper pipes through the slab. A minor problem was that you needed to know a few days in advance when you were going to want heat, as it took time for the slab to get warm. Replacing the 1950 boiler (maybe 50-60% efficiency?) with a modern one (93% or so) made a huge difference in our heating bill.
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Post by theevan on Apr 10, 2024 10:19:59 GMT -5
At a building science conference I would go to, there'd be a class on building environments. And the instructer would start out with a question. "Raise your hand if you think heat rises?" Then he'd say, "All you who raised your hand failed the course. Heat doesn't rise. Cold air is heavier and sinks, pushing warm air up."
It's gravity, Baby. I'm just sayin' My KC house had circa 1950 radiant heat, copper pipes through the slab. A minor problem was that you needed to know a few days in advance when you were going to want heat, as it took time for the slab to get warm. Replacing the 1950 boiler (maybe 50-60% efficiency?) with a modern one (93% or so) made a huge difference in our heating bill. Our '55 or '56 Eichler home had the same setup. And no a/c. Rarely gets warm enough in San Mateo
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Post by factorychef on Apr 10, 2024 10:47:24 GMT -5
That steel house was torn down with two other houses awhile back.
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Post by theevan on Apr 10, 2024 13:47:11 GMT -5
A real pioneer. An interesting part of the Chicago Architectural boat tour is the Montgomery Ward building. They did everything there. It is massive.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 10, 2024 14:12:07 GMT -5
Built in St. Paul’s Midway District in 1921, the nine-story Ward building, with its 257-foot tower, housed the company’s mail order operations for much of the western United States. It's long gone now, most recently replaced by Allianz Field, a soccer arena.
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Post by drlj on Apr 10, 2024 16:21:17 GMT -5
There were 3 Sears homes a block away when we lived in Crete. They were interesting and nice homes.
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Post by Marshall on Apr 10, 2024 22:48:40 GMT -5
A real pioneer. An interesting part of the Chicago Architectural boat tour is the Montgomery Ward building. They did everything there. It is massive. It’s now a multi-use office/residential/ commercial complex. I did some work in there when it was converted.
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