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Friday, November 13, 2009 OnSite Washingtonians try to save the lost Lustrons Washington Business Journal - by Kim A. O'Connell Contributing Writer On a sunny morning a year ago, I joined a group of visitors in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. We werent there to view Andy Warhol paintings or Joan Mir collages, but to disassemble an all-steel Lustron house, which had been erected in near-entirety for MoMAs acclaimed 2008 exhibition on prefabricated housing. I had followed this particular Lustron on a long, strange trip from its original lot in Arlington to a warehouse in Chantilly and then to this world-class museum, where I and other volunteers had assembled the house in June and returned four months later to see it back to Virginia. Despite the Lustrons New York debut, however, the houses fate now remains uncertain, and other prefabs in the Washington area are vulnerable as well. .... for more go to http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/11/16/tidbits10.html Matthew Gilmore H-DC list co-editor, web editor dc-edit@mail.h-net.msu.edu http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/ [list website] http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi?list=H-DC [subscribe to H-DC] Remember to check http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=lm&list=H-DC for past list messages.
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