A four-bedroom bomb shelter house in Nevada hits the market for $18 million
The home sits 26 feet below the surface and offers four bedrooms, four baths, an elevator, and 5,000 square feet of space.
Avon Products executive Girard Henderson gave a whole new meaning to the word “foundation.”
When thousands of Americans built bomb shelters during the Cold War, Henderson constructed a home underground in the Nevada desert, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.
3970 Spencer St. in Las Vegas sits 26 feet below the surface and offers four bedrooms, four baths, two staircases, two utility rooms, an elevator, and 5,000 square feet of living space. The bomb shelter itself is nearly 15,000 square feet.
The 2,316-square-foot caretaker’s house sits above it all on 1.05 gated acres with dual two-car garages.
The below-ground grounds include a 450-square-foot guest house, “lawns,” a swimming pool with a waterfall, two spas, a barbecue, and 500 linear feet of floor-to-ceiling murals of city and mountain views with lighting that simulates day, dusk, night, and dawn. The combined living and dining areas feature a wood-burning fireplace, and the home also has a game room, sauna, and a bar.
The property is on the market for $18 million. The listing agent is Stephen M-LaForge of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices in Henderson, Nev. (The city of Henderson was named after former US senator Charles B. Henderson, not Girard Henderson, who died in 1983.)
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