The property is entered via a half-mile driveway, and the complex is protected by secure, 8-foot fencing. Once the area was cleaned out, the owners got to work to build their underground lair. What they have called Subterra Castle includes an underground living quarters, workshop, and event space that they have called home for more than three decades.
It then took 80 wheelbarrow trips to clear the space of “mud and gunk,” Siegle notes. It took a high-powered water pump 22 hours to drain over one million gallons of liquid from beneath the Earth's surface. He explored the underground space with a canoe and flashlight, even diving in, before deciding to take on the massive subterranean project.Īfter the purchase, the first priority was to dry out the space. Some areas were filled with as much as 8 feet of water, but the bunker's eventual owner did his due diligence before purchasing. “It had been vacant for some time,” says the listing agent, Trent Siegle with Midwest Land Group. The current owners purchased the property in the early 1980s.
That left the site, which had cost the government $3.3 million to build, in sorry shape. News clippings about the bunker home ()Īfter use by the military, the listing in question was turned over to a salvage company that further stripped the property. Built to withstand bomb blasts, it is made up of epoxy-resin concrete and heavy rebar.
As structures go, though, this silo is still pretty darn solid.
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