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A few weeks ago (March 20) I posted a photo of a house in Tennessee that's shaped like a flying saucer. Now, here's a new one: a house that's designed to look upside down! This house, in Syzmbark, Poland, is supposedly a commentary on the instability and backwardness of Poland's former Communist era. OK, I get that. But it's also just plain cool.
Did you see this article about the Spaceship House in Tennessee? I'm torn between "What in the world were they thinking?" and "Oooh, I want one!" It would be kind of fun as a vacation get-away, don't you think? My son just asked if we can build a house that really flies in space.
Woman Buys Spaceship House
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The sale price for a Chattanooga, Tenn., house shaped like a flying saucer is nothing to phone home about.
The Space House sold at auction Saturday for a down-to-earth bid of $135,000. Auctioneer Terry Posey says he's surprised bidding didn't go higher. The sale of the 38-year-old, three-bedroom structure perched on six "landing gear" legs attracted worldwide attention.
Posey says Pearl Johnson of Cincinnati bought the mountainside house but didn't want to discuss the transaction.
The house has a retractable staircase that lowers to the ground. A neighbor says that feature came in handy for one former owner who was having an argument with her husband. She pulled up the stairway, drove her husband's truck underneath it so he couldn't get the stairs down and left him stuck inside.
The home, an eye-catcher for almost four decades sits on a twisting road to Signal Mountain. Boldly built by the late Curtis W. King in 1970 - just after television executives grounded the original run of the Starship Enterprise - the circular house has multiple levels, three bedrooms, two bathrooms and an entrance staircase that lowers and retracts with the push of a button.
Lois Killebrew, a Realtor who handled an open house at the first sale decades ago, said hundreds of people lined up to see the then-ultramodern structure ringed with small square windows and directional lights and perched on six "landing gear" legs.
"It really looked like a spaceship ready to take off," she said.
