The famous Spinning House is a spaceship-like structure located an hour from Chicago. Commissioned by local psychic Joe Tufano (stage name Joe Who),, before his passing, the dome-shaped rotating home is true to its eccentric origins. Built atop a motorized turntable structure, it could actually spin around!
“I always wanted to live in a dome, but I hadn’t seen one that didn’t leak. So, I read about this manufacturer in Canada [Sunspace Rotating Homes] and I went up to see it. It was run by a shipbuilder, so I was pretty confident that it wouldn’t leak. I wound up buying it,” Tufano stated. Eventually, the house was constructed over a three-year period in Somonauk, a small village in Dekalb County near Sandwich and Lake Holiday.
Tufano bought the largest single-family model available from Sunspace Rotating Homes: 4,018 square feet in all. It features four bedrooms (including a master bedroom with two closets), three full bathrooms, and two half bathrooms, plus a living room, dining room, and kitchen. And completing the house, of course, were the dome’s characteristic cathedral ceilings.
However, it was the motorized turntable that made this house truly unique, allowing the structure to turn at the simple push of a button. Speaking with Architecture Week in 2002, Tufano described what caused him to turn the home: “When I got tired of looking at the woods or the open space of the site from my dining room window, or if I didn’t like the way shadows were created inside during daylight.” The so-called “Dome Home” was also especially energy efficient; Tufano reported that, due to the shape, it required half the heating and air conditioning of similarly-sized houses.
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