Odd, Unique, or Strange Houses/Buildings... (shot, pictures, photo, repair)
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I love seeing really unique, creative, odd, strange, and crazy looking places. I have a few places I'm gonna add as I load them onto this computer but was also hoping others will share their own finds. I guess we'll see if I'm the only one who has a fascination with this and the pictures to prove it. If you have anything to add, don't forget to name the city and state!
So here's my first contribution. I also have it posted in the Alaska thread.
Willow, Alaska
It's referred to by locals as the "Dr. Suess House" It just TOWERS over the tree tops and appears to have anywhere from 10 - 12 stories... Although as you can see it's kinda hard to figure out where one level ends and the next begins.
I guess it's been unfinished like this for the last 10 years
This second picture is really fuzzy but shows how the house sits against the river. And gives a better idea how tall it is.
It's referred to by locals as the "Dr. Suess House" It just TOWERS over the tree tops and appears to have anywhere from 10 - 12 stories... Although as you can see it's kinda hard to figure out where one level ends and the next begins.
The airport tower was originally the Merrill Field tower in Anchorage (only on a MUCH taller building). In the big 1964 earthquake the airport tower was damaged beyond repair and had to be replaced. Amazingly the very top of the old tower was salvageable. A previous owner of this house bought it, had it brought all the way out to the valley, and built an addition onto his house with it.
This was the main house. It's hard to tell because of the tall grass but let me assure you that the home is held up by nothing more than the pole going thru the home and sticking out of the top (it maybe an old tree trunk still in the ground, not sure).
I've heard from people who have met him that this one has 2 floors, electricity, a monitor for heat, a bed, TV, and small kitchen, but no running water or plumbing. He lives in this tree house year round I guess. But all that is hear-say. I've also heard that there's been articles in I think the Anchorage paper about his houses. I say houses because he has a few of these on the property (as seen in the other picture below).
The tree house to the right I have no idea what is use for (as you can see its built around an actual living tree), and the other tree house in the center seems to be a finished green house/solarium. The "house" I showed in the first picture is located just out of this shot to the left about 20 yards. The 3 domes that sit on the ground in front of the solarium have looked the same for several years, unfinished. I have no idea what they're for but I know they're not livable like the other "tree houses".
Minuteman that is such a neat place. We we're in Seattle a few summers ago and took the monorail through the middle of the building. I would have loved to go inside and see what it's like.
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