There are also tidy bunkbeds and ample cupboard space. With no windows, Bud installed a wall mural above a table for two. Inside, the mid-century style bunker includes a hotplate and electric frying pan to ensure hot meals (if the electricity holds on). (Coldwell Banker) All the necessities for survival, plus ample storage. Down in the bomb shelter, Bud remedied the lack of windows by placing a scenic mural on the wall. "The circular metal rim of the hatch barely peeks through the grass". To reach the fallout shelter, you venture down two floors, where the entrance is marked by a wooden wall ladder, which runs up to an escape hatch leading to the backyard.īud mounted a peg board nearby to hold a hammer, sledgehammer and wrench – "at the ready to open the hatch, which opens near an unassuming container of blooming geraniums in the backyard," writes Lake Minnetonka Magazine. Go down another level to reach the bunker. The basement level of the home, which was built in 1957. The shelter was specifically designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from nuclear explosion. "Bud loved to build things, and he drew it all to scale". Henrietta and Bud built the shelter after "IBM gave all their employees $1,000 (AU$1,350) to build one," Henrietta told Lake Minnetonka Magazine in 2017. The property also has its own solar-powered greenhouse, ensuring food after End of Days. With history possibly repeating, Twitter users have dubbed the property an "apocalypse dream home" with strong buyer interest fuelled by current fears over Russia invading the Ukraine, and what that may mean for another potential nuclear world war. READ MORE: Modern Family star Ariel Winter lists LA home for $5.5 million Many similar shelters were built as civil defense measures during the Cold War. Kennedy urged families to construct them amid the threat of nuclear war. The shelter was added to the home in 1961 by the sole owners – Henrietta and Bud Chute – after President John F. Bud's ham radio set up/radio control room, installed due to the threat of nuclear war in the '60s.
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