Historic Preservation
When is HISTORIC not HISTORIC in Middletown, that is the question for today?
For numerous years City Hall has used millions of dollars of our tax dollars on Historic Preservation of THEIR DOWNTOWN area. City Hall has told taxpayers  numerous times that Historic Preservation is their priority.  
We even have a Historic Review Board to make sure businesses and home owners follow these rules to the letter or suffer the wrath of Mr. Kohler.
So you can imagine my surprise as I drove down the street the other day and saw a house that is listed on the National Historic Registry because only about 2,500 of these houses were built in the US, with a demo sign on the front of the house.
These homes were even featured in a PBS Special film.
How did this happen? Doesn’t anyone from City Hall look at the houses that Mr. Adkin’s has placed on the demo list? So you must ask yourself just how historic does a house need to be if not located on Main Street before City Hall will make an  effort to save it?
This LUSTRON HOME needs to be removed from the demo list and an add placed to sell this home and move it to another location or sell it to a private owner and let him dismantle it so the parts can be used to save other Lustron Homes here in Ohio. This is like watching a 1957 Chevy being crushed…when they are gone…they are gone forever.
Here is the link to the LUSTRON HOME web site
http://www.lustronpreservation.org/index.php" rel="nofollow -

We have numerous Lustron Homes in our community. All the interior walls in these homes were porcelain on steel also.

Help furnish ’50s house at museum

Public is being asked 
to provide items for the recreated prefab home

Associated Press 10:42 PM Sunday, January 1, 2012

    COLUMBUS — For an upcoming exhibit, the state’s history museum will recreate an entire 1950s prefab home that has an Ohio connection, and the public is being asked to help furnish it.
    “What we’re looking for are hands-on objects, knickknacks, things from everyday life, anything that would have been in your house,” said Cameron Wood, history curator at the Ohio Historical Center.
    The kinds of things the museum is looking for include comic books, toys and games, household appliances, furniture and clothes, Wood told The Columbus Dispatch.
     The donated stuff, which won’t be returned, will be part of an interactive exhibit set to open in the fall inside a reconstructed Lustron porcelain and steel home. It will be rebuilt inside the historical center in Columbus.
    “Our hope is that people that go through this will get a real sense of what it’s like to live in the 1950s,” said Mark Holbrook, marketing manager for the Ohio Historical Society.
     The society will dust off some 1950s artifacts in its own collection for use in the exhibit, including oddball items such as emptied metal tubes of shampoo, hair tonic, toothpaste and other household products.
    Also on display will be museum prizes from the era, such as a Cleveland Indians baseball pennant picturing and autographed by outfielder Larry Doby. He broke a color barrier in 1947 by becoming the first black player in the American League
    The exhibit will mark a homecoming for the Lustron house, which has been on display for three years at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
     The prefabricated, modular home was one of many turned out by a Columbus factory from 1948 to 1950 and advertised during the post-World War II housing boom as “The House America’s Been Waiting For.”
    The Lustron company fizzled quickly. It filed for bankruptcy and was liquidated in 1951.