Under the title “Round Home Moored to a Hill,” Life magazine dedicated six pages to a Boulder, Colorado house designed by architect Charles Haertling in 1964. Neighbors had previously voiced vehement opposition to the house, sending a letter of protest during its construction that complained of the house’s “sheer grossness” and predicted “a definite though incalculable loss of property values.”
After the house was built, Life relates, “most of the neighbors apologized.”
The owners “wound up with a round house partly because their architect, Charles Haertling, is an imaginative man but more because — as they found to their surprise — they could get more space for their money in a round house than in a square one.”
