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The Round House A Pella Man's Crazy Idea
Len Maasdam and Gertrude Maasdam built a round house on a 50 acre Iowa tract. He pursued many ideas from sorghum royalties to Vermeer inventions and designed a sunlit east-facing dome home with a windbreak brick front. Builders balked at the nontraditional project, but local masons finished the 40 foot dome, which holds a 6 foot glass bubble and a moving display shelf.
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