Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Silohome May be the Wave of the Future

Then again, it might not.

I found this site. It's a company that touts "the most unique and secure real estate in the world". It's called the "silohome". A brief background from the site tells part of the story of the home pictured below.

NY's Adirondack State Park - During the late 1950's and early 1960's when the Cold War was escalating, the U.S. government built hundreds of Atlas-F missile silos (each for 18 million in 1961, with the rising cost of construction today one could barely fund the excavation.) to prepare the country for an attack that never came. Today, most of these silos lie abandoned and filled with water, monuments to a bygone era of American historyand left to waste. But now, thanks to two entrepreneurial cousins, Bruce Francisco and Gregory Gibbons, one of these silos located in beautiful Adirondack State Park near Lake Placid is finding new life as a luxury home safe haven getaway complex accessible by plane or car. The real estate includes 20 acres of land with approximately 78 acres available as 10 approved building lots. The home is conveniently located to Montreal, Lake Placid and Plattsburgh and boast such outstanding year round activities as golfing, hunting, fishing, boating, hiking and world class skiing.

See photos of the interior here.

It's not hard to see where these folks got their idea from.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I never would have make the connection. Now that you've pointed it out, how could anyone miss it?

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