This three-story monolithic dome home is still for sale in Florida, and now $300K cheaper

A rare monolithic dome home is on the market, with a newly slashed price tag.

The home, located at 634 Silvershore Drive in Pensacola, was built in 2007 by Bill Magenheimer and his wife Margo after their previous home was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan.

“We got married after Hurricane Ivan and we went to dome school for our honeymoon,” said Bill in a 2006 article for the Pensacola News Journal.

While still rare, dome homes are popular not only because of their oddball shape, but because they’re virtually natural-disaster-proof. They’re often designed with extreme weather like flooding and hurricanes in mind and built with fire-proof materials. And with increasingly concerning effects of climate change on the rise, more and more people are looking for a dome home.

Though both are half-spherical and rather odd-looking, monolithic domes are slightly different than geodesic domes, which are formed of interconnected triangular panels. Monolithic domes are constructed in one piece, a domed shell poured over a round form.

The three-story, 3,000-square-foot dome home comes with three bedrooms and four bathrooms, as well as 30-foot-high ceilings, and its own beach with views of Bayou Grande.

The home is currently priced at $980,000, down from $1.3 million last fall. The home is being represented by William C. Dyess with Avast Realty, LLC.