If you’ve driven on the San Francisco Bay Area’s Interstate 280 anytime since, say, 1976, you’ve seen it: the brightly colored domes, made of shotcrete and wire, that make up what’s known around these parts as the “Flintstones House”—let’s call it a “futuristic prehistoric” look.
The big news all over town? The faux-primitive icon is for sale—for just $4.2 million!
“We felt that’s a pretty good price for a landmark,” Realtor® Judy Meuschke of San Francisco and Peninsula Realtor told NBC.
Judy Meuschke-San Francisco and Peninsula Realtor
But this 2,730-square-foot house is no prehistoric piece of architecture. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom property in Hillsborough, CA, has a kitchen designed by architect Eugene Tsui; steel-coiled doors designed by “Burning Man” artist Dan Das Mann; and custom glass created by John Lewis Glass Studio.
Judy Meuschke-San Francisco and Peninsula Realtor
The interwebs were all abuzz with news of the home’s listing this week, not necessarily because so many people wanted to buy it, but because so many thousands of people had always wanted to get a look inside.
IVE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE INSIDE THE FLINTSTONE HOUSE MY LIFE IS COMPLETE pic.twitter.com/FxcKbIKfgG
— sarah (@sarahhmiyaa) September 1, 2015
Judy Meuschke-San Francisco and Peninsula Realtor
One thing we learned from looking at the pictures: Residents of the Flintstones House have just as good a view of I-280 drivers as those drivers do of the house.
Judy Meuschke-San Francisco and Peninsula Realtor
Who lives there now? Meuschke won’t say. The resident of 19 years, she told NBC, is moving on. He or she should have enough money after the sale to take Fred, Wilma, and the whole gang on a decent vacation. The last sold price was purportedly $800,000 in 1996.
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