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Who Lives Underground? Not Just Moles!
That was what the newspaper headline of the Journal Messenger said in 1983 when they were writing about my current earth sheltered home listing in Manassas.  The current owner of the property is only the second owner of the home and she is fortunate enough to have the original photos of the home being built (which I had burned to a CD) and the newspaper articles that were published when the home was first built.
It is amazing to read how the original builder, a man named George Allison, thought that with all of the energy saving features the home provided that there would a lot of these homes built in the near future.  Of course we all know that the near future is way past, this was 1983 after all and though there were a few more of these homes built in our area, they did not catch on.
Was it because they were too futuristic for the time?  Is it because people think that living underground is dark or damp?   Was it banks reluctance to make construction loans on underground homes?  It may have been those and so many more reasons.  Now with energy conservation and ECO friendly living is ... more

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