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Old 05-29-2012, 11:58 AM   #1
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May 29, 2012 - Caveland



How would you like to live in a cave?

Or a mine?

Or a roller rink?

Or, all three?

The latest owners have converted this one-time cave/mine/roller rink into a three bedroom home, complete with spring and city water.

The only hitch? It is in Festus, Missouri.

Well, someone has to live there!


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Old 05-29-2012, 07:03 PM   #2
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If you don't like living in Festus, use the back door. It's in Indiana.
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Old 05-29-2012, 08:26 PM   #3
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It's kind of a regression in human nature to move back into the caves...
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Old 05-29-2012, 09:37 PM   #4
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Hate to do this, but that looks really familiar...
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Old 05-30-2012, 05:27 AM   #5
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Why didn't they make the front so it matched the rock face? Not hard to do and would look better than a house that collided with a cave.
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Old 05-30-2012, 06:11 AM   #6
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Hate to do this, but that looks really familiar...
That's because we've seen it before when it was for sale on ebay

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Old 05-30-2012, 09:19 AM   #7
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Why didn't they make the front so it matched the rock face?
Cuz they never would have found the front door?
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Old 05-30-2012, 10:20 AM   #8
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Why didn't they make the front so it matched the rock face? Not hard to do and would look better than a house that collided with a cave.
You can see a rockface anywhere. How often do you get to see a house that's collided with a cave?
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Old 05-30-2012, 10:40 AM   #9
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Looks like this house might go directly underneath the neighbors' houses. Depends on how far back it goes, and it looks like it goes pretty far back.

1101 N 11th St Festus, MO 63028

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Old 05-30-2012, 01:29 PM   #10
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From caveland.us: "Surveys showed our boundaries right where they were supposed to be. There were no problems with the cave running under four other properties. All properties were deeded accordingly. Whereas normal property deeds give an owner rights to their land extending all of the way to the core of the earth, the four properties above the back of the cave are deeded with surface rights only."
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