Golf shaped house off Hwy 40 in AZ (Prescott: rv parks, for sale)

[MzzHoyt]

We moved from CA two years ago and I travel back and forth quite a bit to visit our grandchildren and grown children still in CA. I see this house all the time and I am so curious about it. Does anybody know about it, what it is like on the inside, etc? I believe it has been the topic of conversation before, but I just joined this forum and wasn't in on it.

Thanks!

[ArizonaBear]

Originally Posted by MzzHoyt

We moved from CA two years ago and I travel back and forth quite a bit to visit our grandchildren and grown children still in CA. I see this house all the time and I am so curious about it. Does anybody know about it, what it is like on the inside, etc? I believe it has been the topic of conversation before, but I just joined this forum and wasn't in on it.

Thanks!

Golf Ball house

That place was actually built in 1971 if memory holds me correctly and I used to pass by it a lot while living in Mohave County.

Unfortunately; I lost all of my pictures of it when my computer crashed

[Havasu]

Life in a golf ball. Immediately south of Exit 25 on the west side of Interstate 40, an enormous geodesic sphere is perched on a standpipe. To all the traffic traveling on the Interstate, it looks like a golf ball sitting on a tee waiting to be sent off into space by some huge driver.

Located just south of the remaining artifacts of Route 66--a road that dates back to an era when buildings often took on the form of the product they were selling--one would be forgiven for looking for the golf course that goes with the ball. No golf course, not even a miniature one, will be found. The ball was built to be a night club and restaurant for a land development. The project went bust leaving an orphaned 40 foot diameter oddity sitting alongside Interstate 40.


The Yucca golf ball home. A couple owned RV parks, hotels and restaurants in Wyoming. They were traveling along Interstate 40 on a winter visit to the state when they happened on the abandoned sphere. They bought it in 1981 and presented it to his wifel for her birthday. She says, "He's always buying something goofy." This fit right in.

In 1991, the couple moved into the sphere. They divided it into three levels with 3,400 square feet of floor space. A kitchen and den are on the lowest level. The living room and dining room are on the middle level. The bedrooms round out the top level. Each floor has its own full bath, and access by an outside stairway: 42 steps to the first level, 20 more to the second level, and 18 more to the top.
http://www.newtohavasu.net/

[rambrush]

There must be changes in the wind there. There is a shed that they have been working on for a while now and still not completed. There is also a new modular building on site and they have revamped the driveway.

[snowthedirtbub]

Wow what a pain in the but to walk up those ramps everyday. Imagine getting grocies and having to make multiple trips up that bad boy.

[Tammye]

We saw that thing last week on our way to Prescott! Really interesting structure. They were having a yard sale.

[amatrine]

There is a house here I am going to have to get a picture of that I wonder what it is.
It is on 11 mile corner road in pinal county. It is very high up on stakes, and has three huge white things on top that kind of remind me of silos, but they are shaped like curved horns. A deck is also built on stilts surrounding it. I goto my daughters open house Thursday, and will snap a photo of it, to see if any of you have any ideas.

Ama

[Havasu]

Originally Posted by Tammye

We saw that thing last week on our way to Prescott! Really interesting structure. They were having a yard sale.

I for sure would of stopped by the yard sale and see what they had for sale.
When I was taking the picture I was kind of close and they had quite a few
NO TRESPASSING signs up. I did not enter the land but I sure would of liked to and the yard sale would give me an excuse.

[rambrush]

Yep they have had so many looky loo's /people wanting to tour the place they had to put signs up. Seems like you live in a place like that you would learn to accept the fact it is a tourist attraction. But it can not be zoned commercial structure because only 1 way in and out. Guess a parachute from the top floor would not count?

[havasulady]

I thought last time i passed that place I saw a "For Sale" sign. Husband jokes about that house...says the guy went insane there, looking for a corner to pee in.