Wednesday WTF: Howdy Podnah, Want a Mushroom?
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Whether you think it looks like mushrooms, alien spaceships, or Queen Anne’s Lace, the Mushroom House is either cool or weird. Or both.
This week’s Wednesday WTF has me conflicted. I mean, the house is definitely unusual and shaped like several mushrooms, but it’s also really kind of cool.
Meet the Mushroom House. Located in Pittsford, New York, it is 4,100 square feet of IDK and 68 square feet of WTF, and was built between 1970 and 1972, mostly by architect James Johnson for Robert and Marguerite Antell.
Johnson’s inspiration wasn’t actually mushrooms, but Queen Anne’s Lace.
But I think we can all safely say we’re looking at some damned mushroom houses, right? Right.
Anyway, the house is actually four-and-a-half, 80-ton concrete pods that are built into the side of a hill. Yes, if you live here you’d be pod people.
The Antells owned the house until 1996. In 1999, it came back to the family when a cousin, Steven Whitman, purchased the home, renovating it and adding an underground tunnel lined with glass mosaic and fiber optics, which leads to a great room pod, complete with an Adam Chesis laminated mahogany tree.
It was sold again in 2012 and again in 2015. It is now available to rent — if you can afford $6,900 a month.
