National and State Registers of Historic Places
Grimes House
214 Park Street
Smith Center (Smith County)
Listed in National Register
Mar 2, 2001
Architect: Not listed
Category: secondary structure; single dwelling
Thematic Nomination: Lustron Houses of Kansas
The Grimes House, constructed in 1949, is a one-story, side gabled, Lustron home designed in the two-bedroom Westchester Deluxe Plan. The exterior steel panels are desert tan with white trim. Built by the Smith Center company Attwood Implements for the Robert Grimes family, the Lustron was a prefabricated metal home that had interior features of built-in cabinets and bookshelves. It was nominated for its architecture and its significance as one of only a hundred Lustron houses extant in Kansas at the time of nomination.
