![]() Real plants grow to artificial lights on the porch, and days and nights are always calm, despite what the weather may be doing 13 feet above ground. "You just don't have the deterioration down here that you do above ground," says Hamman. And in an area of the country where dust storms are frequent, cleaning and dusting this house is rarely needed. There are no worries about dirty windows, broken windows or even burglars getting in the windows. Each can be lit with four lighting techniques: daytime, dusk, nighttime, and dawn. Murals on the concrete shell enclosing the house were obviously given careful attention. Windows throughout the house give you a false sense of being above ground. "You see, there are windows everywhere and that's the outside patio," says Hamman while giving us a tour. The first bomb shelter/residence of its kind. A complete four bedroom, three bath house inside a steel reinforced concrete shell, 13 feet underground. The Atomitat was built in 1962 by Swayze, and it has been compared to a ship in a bottle. "I look out my kitchen window and see beautiful murals," says Hamman. Juanita and her husband Bill bought the underground house 35 years-ago, and have lived here ever since. But while walking down the giant staircase in between the two above ground single car garages, you realize this is a truly unique home. that met civil defense specifications.įrom above the earth's surface, it doesn't look like much of a home in northwest Plainview. It was the first underground home in the U.S. The creation was named The Atomitat, derived from the words atomic habitat. The project started during a hot period in the Cold War, a concept completely ahead of its time.
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