Military Installations Converted Into Homes

Posted by Miss Cellania in Architecture, Weapons & War on September 15, 2009 at 11:00 pm


A well-insulated 20,000 square foot home complete with an airstrip and a Jacuzzi sounds really nice. This one is underground in an abandoned missile silo! It was once the home of an Atlas-F missile built for the Cold War, but it’s been converted into a luxury home. See seven such military installations now used as living spaces. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend


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9 comments to "Military Installations Converted Into Homes"

  1. Johnny Cat
    September 16th, 2009 at 12:30 am

    The heavens have opened up, and presented my future home, right here. Yes, just like I planned.

  2. Gauldar
    September 16th, 2009 at 9:54 am

    BEWARE THE DEEP CROWS!

  3. FishBottleT
    September 16th, 2009 at 11:13 am

    It would be really neat to live in one of these homes. I would want to have a waterfall that i could drive out of though. thats what I would like!

  4. Gail Pink
    September 16th, 2009 at 11:20 am

    They sure are cool, but I bet these homes weren't cheap.

  5. Kalel
    September 16th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Seems there's an underground market for this sort of thing.

  6. chay
    September 16th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    I'd be worried that there were still 100 russian missiles pointed at the house/silo, long forgotten hardware from the cold war or something!

  7. Yakiman
    September 16th, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    When I was in high school (mid-70's) there was a de-comissioned Nike missile installation in our town (Vashon Island, WA) and some friends and I broke in to the grounds and found a padlocked hatch. We came back with bolt cutters and broke in to find a huge empty underground control center that looked like all the equipment had just been torn out of the walls. We had huge parties down there for several days running - it was great fun until the local authorities caught on. Apparently the U.S. govt still owned it and did not really like it when people trespass in a top-secret federal missile installation.

  8. CommentKiller
    September 17th, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    I don't remember the exact town, but there is a medium sized base near a small seaside town in Alaska that has been abandoned and the homes therein are available for lease/purchase. Oh! And lets not forget about the ...Flats in Nevada where the abandoned nuclear test site is. They have some lovely fixer-upper bungalows real cheap, quiet neighbors (actually non-existent), and it's not that far from Las Vegas. Ha!! Just kidding about the last one.

  9. Nicholas Dollak
    September 18th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    The silo itself could be converted into a stack of pineapple-ring-shaped apartments.


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