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			</div><p>The Ensculptic House, commonly known as &#8216;Mushroom House&#8217; is a quirky looking home located near Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota.</p>
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<p>Defying architectural style pigeonholing, the house uses very little traditional building material. Much of the property is made from polyurethane spray-foam over burlap on a metal skeleton and has very few windows or straight walls.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">THE HISTORY OF ENSCULPTIC HOUSE</h2>
<p>Built in the summer of 1969, Ensculptic house was the brainchild of Winslow Wedin. <a href="http://ensculptic.blogspot.com/2013/02/winslow-elliot-wedin-september-29th.html">Winslow</a>, a local architect, brought seven architecture students from Auburn University in Texas and camped out all summer while building the home.</p>
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<p>Located on a rural road in the country, it is often described as a &#8220;hobbit house&#8221;, &#8220;marshmallow house&#8221; or &#8220;mushroom house&#8221;.</p>
<p>The house features flowing lines, rounded archways, and deep recessed nooks and crannies that give the home a 1960s-style futuristic look. Something you would expect to see an alien from Star Trek or Star Wars living in.</p>
<p>Inside the property, it very much feels like a cave and a light fluffy cloud all rolled into one. The 4,080-square foot property features 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and sits on 8.4 acres of land.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, the hardened foam house concept never caught on and over the years the house passed from family to family before being abandoned.</p>
<p>In 2010 the house went on the market for $237,000, before being knocked down to $210,000. Despite many viewings, nobody seemed interested in purchasing the house.</p>
<p>Dayna Murray of Keller Williams Realty, who put the property on the market at the time stated: &#8220;you buy the land, you get the house&#8221;. The price was what the land was valued at, the house was just an added bonus.</p>
<div id="attachment_1272" style="width: 810px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1272" class="wp-image-1272" src="http://houseandhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Ensculptic-House-Foyer-1024x768.jpg" alt="Ensculptic House Foyer" width="800" height="600" /><p id="caption-attachment-1272" class="wp-caption-text">Enscultoic House as it looked around 2010.</p></div>
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<p>This, of course, meant the house could have been bulldozed. However, in 2011 the house finally sold to a couple for $170,000.</p>
<p>Ronald Hietala and his wife, Janis, were living in Virginia and bought the house unseen. Apart from the photos that appeared with the online real-estate listing. The couple, originally from Minnesota, had been searching for a getaway home. Ronald bought the house as he estimated the land was worth that alone.</p>
<div id="attachment_1273" style="width: 810px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1273" class="wp-image-1273" src="http://houseandhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Ronald-Hietala-1024x683.jpg" alt="Ronald Hietala" width="800" height="534" /><p id="caption-attachment-1273" class="wp-caption-text">Ronald Hietala, who purchased the property in 2011.</p></div>
<p>“I thought, ‘We can’t lose,’ ” he said. “We would probably tear it down and build new or sell it when land values went up.”</p>
<p>However, when he stepped inside the home before closing the deal, he knew he had made the right decision. Ensculptic house would not be torn down!</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">THE HOUSE TODAY</h2>
<p>After purchasing the home, Hietala invested $50,000 to fix the geothermal heat pump, install new windows, wiring, and plumbing and add a layer of polyurethane foam over the leaky fiberglass roof.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1264" src="http://houseandhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Front-Entrance-1-1024x687.jpg" alt="Front Entrance" width="800" height="537" /></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1265" src="http://houseandhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Inside-Ensculptic-House-1024x674.jpg" alt="Inside Ensculptic House" width="800" height="526" /></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1280" src="http://houseandhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Living-Area-1-1024x683.jpg" alt="Living Area" width="800" height="534" /></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1269" src="http://houseandhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Dining-Area-1024x683.jpg" alt="Ensculptic House Dining Area" width="800" height="534" /></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1281" src="http://houseandhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Kitchen-1024x682.jpg" alt="Ensculptic House Kitchen" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p>As for living in an offbeat home, simple tasks such as positioning furniture, installing closet doors, and hanging artwork are a challenge because of the curved design. But with seating sculpted out of the walls, such as inside a cozy sunken fireplace room, little furniture is required.</p>
<p>Hietala often settles in front of a 28-foot wall of glass facing the backyard, where he watches wild turkeys and other wildlife. “At night it’s very quiet,” he said. “Now and then, I hear a coyote or raccoon run across the roof.”</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1275" src="http://houseandhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Bedroom-2-1024x683.jpg" alt="Ensculptic House Bedroom" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p>Hietala and Bren, who still live in Virginia but visit regularly, are glad they preserved the experimental sprayed-on polyurethane home, although they aren’t sure what its future holds.</p>
<p>“It’s a remarkable piece of architecture, and it’s still standing after 40-plus years,” said Hietala. “But innovation is always difficult. There’s still the possibility that unexpected things will happen.”