The Flintstone House

The Flintstone House
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View from Eugene A. Doran Memorial Bridge on Interstate 280

The Flintstone House is a house in Hillsborough, California[1] overlooking, and best seen from the Eugene A. Doran Memorial Bridge on Interstate 280.[2][3][4] It was designed by architect William Nicholson and built in 1976 as an experiment in new building materials, in the form of a series of domes. It was constructed by spraying shotcrete onto steel rebar and wire mesh frames over inflated balloons. During its early existence it was off-white in color, but was repainted a deep orange in the mid 2000s.

Disrepair and restoration

In the mid-1980s the house fell into disrepair, as water runoff from higher on the mountainside damaged the foundation, causing the walls to crack. After several feeble attempts, an extensive restoration commenced around 1987.

Notes

  1. ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html. Retrieved 2011-04-23. 
  2. ^ The street address of the structure is 45 Berryessa Way, Hillsborough, California.
  3. ^ Views from the bridge are only available from a moving vehicle; stopping on the freeway for non-emergency reasons is unlawful.
  4. ^ Bridge 35-199, at Crystal Springs Road and San Mateo Creek was named Eugene A. Doran Memorial Bridge after a Hillsborough police officer who was killed in the line of duty on August 5, 1959.

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