Colorado Experience: Charles Deaton - Designs From A New Dimension

[@mindymartinez4134]

We lived on Lookout Mountain and we called it the flying saucer house! My big sister babysat there in 1967/68😊 It ALWAYS makes my Heart SMILE! ❤🐼❤

[@bethbartlett5692]

Chattanooga?

[@DerrikAnderson-fz5zd]

We lived on the mountain thru the 1970’s until 1981-82 at Rancho Tranquilo and later El Nido, Charles was our neighbor and took me to the spaceship on occasion, happy to do it, Charles and his family lived in a home next to the Spaceship property so it was usually easy to find him. That was really something as an elementary/junior high school kid. Quite the history, nice to see his visions are still being honored. Would be awesome to see it again some day. Thanks Charles, Thanks to the Winklers for keep’n it alive. D. Anderson.

[@stevenbrower7748]

Great story. Thank you for it. I'm surprised a monograph has not been written on this gentleman.

[@jamesbingham4538]

I remember that house, growing up in Littleton we could see it from a great distance, and I always wondered about the house. Thank you PBS for "the rest of the story"

[@BeckyHazle-Jones]

I hope someday it can be opened to the public to see this beautiful historical building!!

[@xeleghosts7583]

I pass this every day I go to work, I always heard it doesn't have plumbing. cant wait to hear more about this cool looking house

[@startechcode]

I hope that this house will be preserved for eternity what a magnificent structure...I wished that I owned this beautiful modern home what a dream come true!

[@jamman3131]

Such an incredible work of art, and I’m sure a great home to live in…

[@bethbartlett5692]

I have been in the KC Stadium. *His works literally reach the ranks of Frank Lloyd Wright's works. This is the highest compliment I've ever given another Architect, I've yet to discover another in this level, although I trust they exist.* *Delicious Creative Energies captured in a replica of our Space and Time.*.

[@bethbartlett5692]

I must Compliment Colorado on their Productions of People, History, and Development/Growth. These videos have an Authentic feeling, and are most interesting. Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian Tennessee, USA The House is Priceless I really like it!

[@karenkimble9756]

I use to see this house from the Highway. So very cool.

[@BeckyHazle-Jones]

Yes. I would agree. What a landmark!

[@dragonflygrandma]

I remember that house on the mountain. My father did drywall work in it. He took me a couple times. We called it the ufo house..lol

[@donaldcornthwait4656]

It's like the Jetsons 😊

[@anthonyrenaud5783]

I call it the "Jetson's " house every time I pass by on the highway.

[@lilibethdoherty295]

A great Irony is that the location of this house according to the great "Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Casey this house eventually overlook the inland ocean when the Great lakes flood the mid west and is indeed as the Architect felt it was a safe place.

[@kaintudigit1599]

Far ahead of our time. If only I could just touch the house. Maybe just a sliver of his genius would touch me back, in a metaphorical sense. Then again, the bank in Angleton might be enough if touched. Lol. And Lamar Hunt was a very bad person.; he should have intervened about stadium design. I remember watching that monster being built when I repeatedly visited Denver.

[@h.t.7204]

Did he design the bank building on broadway and Hamden?

[@sdb3039]

Howard Roark in the flesh

[@MondoBeno]

The sleeper House is beautiful, I love the sunken living room and the curved stairway. But those non-angular structures are a nightmare to maintain and repair. The stairway widens towards the bottom, and that's a pain to have to measure for carpeting. I've never had to repair curved drywall, and I have no idea how I'd do it.

[@NoirpoolSea]

Awesome and sad at the same time..

[@MomCat6000]

I don't understand the gist of the legal feud that he had to fight so hard over the ownership of the design of the stadium ... all the way to financial & emotional ruin and blacklisting his career! If he conceived the design and collaborated with the engineers & other architects to build the thing - what is the argument? Did it mean he would not get paid for his input or something? What was he trying to prove to the detriment of all his would-be designs of the future? What a loss! It was wonderful though how the house came full circle with his daughter designing the interior and his son-in-law overseeing the renovations. What a feeling of redemption and grace after such prolonged heartache over the decline of both her father and the house.

[@Think-dont-believe]

What movie was it in? Haha guess they will tell me...

[@tootsiebabe3555]

Sleeper. Woody Allen.