2005-01-31
HABITATS
Forestiere Underground Gardens | In the early part of the 20th Century, Baldasare Forestiere left his home in Sicily and came to the United States, moving to Fresno, California | At the beginning he just wanted a cellar to escape the 115-120 degree heat of summer |
Using only hand tools, a wheelbarrow, and horse and a mule, over the course of 40 years he created a complex labyrinthine underground shelter |
At some point, when people asked what he was doing he would tell them he planned to pen up a restaurant, but this never happened |
He said the visions in his mind almost overwhelmed him | He did not know that after he died architects, engineers, and scientists from around the world would call him an architect and engineering genius in his own right |
Ron Gilbert has posted a walk-through tour of this amazing underground structure |
Forestiere Underground Gardens is open in the summer months for public viewing | ¶ 06:58
Photo credit: Ron Gilbert © 2004
Forestiere Underground Gardens | In the early part of the 20th Century, Baldasare Forestiere left his home in Sicily and came to the United States, moving to Fresno, California | At the beginning he just wanted a cellar to escape the 115-120 degree heat of summer |
Using only hand tools, a wheelbarrow, and horse and a mule, over the course of 40 years he created a complex labyrinthine underground shelter |
At some point, when people asked what he was doing he would tell them he planned to pen up a restaurant, but this never happened |
He said the visions in his mind almost overwhelmed him | He did not know that after he died architects, engineers, and scientists from around the world would call him an architect and engineering genius in his own right |
Ron Gilbert has posted a walk-through tour of this amazing underground structure |
Forestiere Underground Gardens is open in the summer months for public viewing | ¶ 06:58
