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  2. Sam and Ruth VanSickle Ford House - Wikipedia

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    The house is dome-shaped, with Quonset hut ribs forming the frame of the dome. Most of the dome is covered in shingles; however, the southeast side of the dome was left open to give the house outdoor rooms. Two smaller domes containing the home's bedrooms abut the south and northeast sides of the main dome. [2]

  3. List of octagon houses - Wikipedia

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    IL Built by the town's founder, John Wood, later the governor of Illinois, at a cost said of $200,000. Demolished in the 1950s or 1960s Octagonal House 1875 Ames: Story: IA Constructed in the 1870s, demolished in 1982. Namesake and original location of The Octagon Center for the Arts. [26] Octagon House (Stamford, Connecticut) N.A.

  4. R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home - Wikipedia

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    The R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home, located at 407 S. Forest Ave. in Carbondale, Illinois, is a geodesic dome house which was the residence of Buckminster Fuller from 1960 to 1971. The house, inhabited by Fuller while he taught at Southern Illinois University , was the only geodesic dome Fuller lived in, as well as the only ...

  5. World War II Quonset hut for sale for $1.7 million in SLO ...

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    There’s also a 20- by 30-foot storage structure behind the Quonset hut. This Quonset located on a half acre of land in Morro Bay is for sale for $1.7 million.

  6. List of the oldest buildings in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Carrollton, Illinois: 1829 Residence Oldest house in Carrollton John Patton Log Cabin: Lexington, Illinois: 1829 Residence One of the oldest buildings in McLean County, Illinois Beecher Hall: Jacksonville, Illinois: 1829-1830 College Building Oldest college building in Illinois and the first built in the state Mermaid House Hotel: Lebanon ...

  7. History of early and simple domes - Wikipedia

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    The earliest evidence for dressed stone domes with voussoirs comes from the first century BC in the region of Palestine, Syria, and southern Anatolia, the "heartland of Oriental Hellenism". [38] A stone pendentive dome is known from a first century BC bath in Petra. [51] The Scythians built domed tombs, as did some Germanic tribes in a ...

  8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Illinois

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    Lincoln Courthouse Square Historic District, Logan County East Dubuque School, Jo Daviess County Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County Illinois State Capitol, Sangamon County Dennis Otte Round Barn, Stephenson County Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, Lee County Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria County General Dean Suspension Bridge, Clinton County

  9. Houses in Sycamore Historic District - Wikipedia

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    [2] [5] Smith, who was the town's first dentist, was raised in Sycamore and attended Sycamore schools before going to medical school in Philadelphia. He was born October 15, 1856, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the youngest of six children of Martha L. and James M. Smith.