Different... Other than being round there is nothing special (ugly IMO), typical interior, etc. It looks like they're having rough time selling and did a 50k reduction. Unless someone comes along who will find this house fascinating and buys it, if not, wait a bit longer if you interested in this house they will get desperate and knock another 50k off the price.

Good luck

It's a late example of a geodesic dome home, a once vaunted approach to homebuilding of the future.

As longtime proponent turned realist Lloyd Khan wrote:

"Metaphorically, our work on domes now appears to us to have been smart:
mathematics, computers, new materials, plastics. Yet reevaluation of our
actual building experiments, publications, and feedback from others
leads us to emphasize that there continue to be many unsolved problems
with dome homes. Difficulties in making the curved shapes livable, short
lives of modern materials, and as-yet-unsolved detail and
weatherproofing problems. We now realize that there will be no wondrous
new solution to housing, that our work, though perhaps smart, was by no
means wise.

"On the market for a long time", "Maintenance nightmare", "Hope the neighbor doesn't build one", and I am not going to explain that last one.

Looks like a nuclear power station from the outside, but the inside does allow it to take in wonderful views. Not for me...

It's only an hour away from me, I should go take some photos to upload

White elephant

Dome homes are hard to sell. But someone might jump in for that beautiful view. I’d rather to have an old mansion with a grand entry and stairway for that price.......

I think this would be a wonderful home for The Great Gazoo.

French Maginot Line, circa early WWII. It didn't work either...

From the listing,

This work of art can be yours for less than half of it's original construction cost!

lol

For something that was apparently built in 2002, I get a very strong 80s-90s vibe from the windows and decor.

More on the Monolithic dome house here,

https://www.monolithic.org/homes/featured-homes/the-case-of-the-disappearing-dome

The original owners also built a Monolothic dome as a manufacturing plant for the bakery company,

https://www.monolithic.org/commercial/natural-ovens-bakery-a-whole-lot-of-firsts

whaas, to answer your question about how to describe the house, it's a Monolithic (company name) dome house. More here,

https://www.monolithic.org/about-us

https://www.monolithic.org/resume-company/david-b-south

> French Maginot Line, circa early WWII. It didn't work either...

Germans, tried to employ the same strategy to stop advancement of Russian troops. ..Did not work so well either. My grandfather was one of the original designers of Russian RPG [the team believed that no particular accuracy was needed = just cheap manufacturing cost, reusable launcher, good explosive head], now weapon of choice of every terrorist.

Hobbit-house?

Interesting some of the houses you can come across. I was surprised to find such a polarizing design and wondered where the concept may have come from.

Here is a one that surprised me. Built in a small mid central WI town in 1863.

You don't see much of this anymore. Wonder why the kitchen is so small comparative to the scale of the rest of the house.

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/216589099_zpid/300000-_price/1198-_mp/globalrelevanceex_sort/44.371232,-88.136101,44.143537,-88.702583_rect/10_zm/4f9d65c26cX1-CR19f8hr1y56c8u_13epzj_crid/