Archive of the ‘Historic Buildings’ Category

BurnhamHospital

Springfield Avenue

405 E. John Street, Champaign

Lyvia Ball Memorial Presbyterian House

500 West Church Street


The Champaign County Farm Round Barn was one of only a few brick round barns left in the state.


Bibliography

Indiana Preservationist, “Machine for Living” Gears up for Tours, #4, July-August 1994.

Fuener, Cynthia A., Heavy Metal Forties Style:  The Lustron Home, Historic Illinois, V.16:No.3, October 1993.

Finet, Angela, Lustron House:  Porcelain Steel Dream, PACA Newsletter, V.6:No.3, May-June 1986.

Finet, Angela, Living in a Lustron, PACA Newsletter, V.6:No.4, July-August 1986.



For further information:

Wikipedia entry for Sears Catalog Homes

The Arts & Crafts Society listing of Sears Roebuck Kit Homes

Sears Archives on Sears Modern Homes

Rebecca L. Hunter, Website about kit and precut homes (contains complete bibliography)