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There is a private residence at 142 Park Road that rises above a stream at the Powder Mills Park entrance that has come to be a head-scratcher of a sight for generations of people who have grown up in the surrounding area. Visible from the road, the abode appears to be a number of mushrooms growing out of the wooded hillside. |
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around the world. The Mushroom House consists of a series of pod units, which look similar to lily pads from beneath, that are suspended on stem-like stilts. There are even underground pods, a car-pod garage, and a mosaic-lined inter-pod tunnel. According to one homeowner who lives in another house designed by the architect, "Jim Johnson's houses are like sculptures. We're living in a sculpture." To us it would seem more like life in the ape city from the Planet of the Apes movie. Or perhaps like inhabiting one of the fantasy toadstool-like landscapes depicted on an old album cover by the band YES. |