Dome home comes full circle in Whittier

A geodesic dome home, something of a rarity in the L.A. County housing market, has come on the market in Whittier at $499,000.

Futurist-philosopher Buckminster Fuller is credited with popularizing the eight-sided circular design, which has only about one-third of the surface space of a box-shaped house of similar floor space. Less exposure made the dome houses cheaper to heat and cool and they caught on in the 1950s. They continued to have a following in the 1970s and ‘80s.

Fuller also used the shape in university buildings and the Montreal Biosphere museum.

This newly remodeled home, built in 1979, contains two bedrooms and two bathrooms in its 1,544 square feet of living space, which sit atop a two-car garage. A large storage area behind the garage could be converted to a wine cellar.

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Six triangular-shaped windows bring light into the ground floor, and views extend beyond downtown Los Angeles. Features include hardwood floors, stainless-steel appliances and a granite-topped kitchen island.

Joel Kushnell of Century 21 Westworld Realty is the listing agent.

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