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1774 Old Peoria Rd, Danvers, IL 61732, USA \| 40°32'21.31"N 89°14'2.57"W
Featured Image By Alanna Risse \| CC 2.0 \| Image Date 110507		Google Maps \| Satellite Imagery Date 082112
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Updated 090213 The photos below are from futuro-house.net and were included in some photo galleries that are no longer accessible. However they can still be found using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Original Images 071412 A great photograph By Peter Wynn Thompson \| Image Date Unknown Additional images here		Updated 090213 Websites and webpages come and go and sometimes interesting pages can no longer be accessed. Case in point the photo galleries on futuro-house.net. However with the help of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine sometimes pages that have "gone the way of the dinosaur" are archived and can still be accessed. The photos at left are from a now defunct gallery on futuro-house.net titled "My Futuro". There were actually more photos but these are the only ones that seem to have been archived; thumbnails of the others can be seen by accessing the gallery pages on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine using these links - Page 1 \| Page 2. The photos include two exterior views, two interior views and three very interesting shots of Futuro House blueprints. In addition the last photograph shows the Futuro in a clearly different location; since it is included in the "My Futuro" gallery I am assuming that this image shows the Futuro at its previous [unknown] location. On 080505 the Star News, a Wilmington, North Carolina newspaper reprinted the Phil Patton New York Times article referenced below. The article was accompanied by a couple of photos I had not seen before. The article can be found archived by Google News. Original Information 071412 Phil Patton of the New York Times wrote in a 072805 article that: "Richard Pisani caught his first glimpse of a Futuro house beside a lake in Illinois in the early 1980's, outlined against the setting sun. "I was just out cruising and there it was in some subdivision," Mr. Pisani said, "like a prop from a sci-fi movie." Pisani saw the Futuro regularly over the next decade and more but the die was cast, a "seed" had been planted and it grew and flowered. In 1997 Pisani purchased the Futuro [reportedly for $2000 - how things have changed over the years]. The Futuro in Danvers was restored and turned into a media room but there was more to Pisani and his Futuro than that. He began to research the Futuro, make contact with other owners and he started to try to track down other remaining examples of Suuronen's iconic creation. By 2004 Pisani had become one of the world's foremost authorities on the Futuro House and in that year he created Futuro-House.net a website dedicated to finding and documenting the remaining Futuro's. Along the way Pisani was likely the single biggest contributor to a resurgence of interest in the Futuro that has seen many more examples identified, many more fans appear and many more websites, blogs and articles dedicated to the Futuro [yours truly included]. For most part I would say thank you to Richard for that though a part of me "blames" him for the change in the cost of aquiring a Futuro which is certainly no longer $2000, more like $50000 or more [which makes it beyond my reach]. Just joking of course - Richard - I take my hat off to you; keep up the good work. Sources & Reference Futuro-House.net New York Times \| Phil Patton \| 072805 In Print - Books & Magazines Plastic Culture \| Pages 100 Got new, updated or corrected information or an image I could use? I am always looking for additional information, history, details, images, videos; just about anything Futuro I guess - if you would like to contribute please use the Futuro Contact Form at the bottom of the main article or email me. As far as images go I am particularly interested in those that are either significantly better than the ones already on this page or show a different aspect or detail. If you own an image meeting one or both of those criteria I would love to be able to use it on this page but I will simply provide a link if that is your preference. Where permission is granted to use an image on the page appropriate attribution will be provided by means of a link to the original image, a link to a website of your choosing or both.

1774 Old Peoria Rd, Danvers, IL 61732, USA \| 40°32'21.31"N 89°14'2.57"W
Featured Image By Alanna Risse \| CC 2.0 \| Image Date 110507		Google Maps \| Satellite Imagery Date 082112
		View Larger Map
Additional Images		Notes, History & Resources
Updated 090213 The photos below are from futuro-house.net and were included in some photo galleries that are no longer accessible. However they can still be found using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Original Images 071412 A great photograph By Peter Wynn Thompson \| Image Date Unknown Additional images here		Updated 090213 Websites and webpages come and go and sometimes interesting pages can no longer be accessed. Case in point the photo galleries on futuro-house.net. However with the help of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine sometimes pages that have "gone the way of the dinosaur" are archived and can still be accessed. The photos at left are from a now defunct gallery on futuro-house.net titled "My Futuro". There were actually more photos but these are the only ones that seem to have been archived; thumbnails of the others can be seen by accessing the gallery pages on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine using these links - Page 1 \| Page 2. The photos include two exterior views, two interior views and three very interesting shots of Futuro House blueprints. In addition the last photograph shows the Futuro in a clearly different location; since it is included in the "My Futuro" gallery I am assuming that this image shows the Futuro at its previous [unknown] location. On 080505 the Star News, a Wilmington, North Carolina newspaper reprinted the Phil Patton New York Times article referenced below. The article was accompanied by a couple of photos I had not seen before. The article can be found archived by Google News. Original Information 071412 Phil Patton of the New York Times wrote in a 072805 article that: "Richard Pisani caught his first glimpse of a Futuro house beside a lake in Illinois in the early 1980's, outlined against the setting sun. "I was just out cruising and there it was in some subdivision," Mr. Pisani said, "like a prop from a sci-fi movie." Pisani saw the Futuro regularly over the next decade and more but the die was cast, a "seed" had been planted and it grew and flowered. In 1997 Pisani purchased the Futuro [reportedly for $2000 - how things have changed over the years]. The Futuro in Danvers was restored and turned into a media room but there was more to Pisani and his Futuro than that. He began to research the Futuro, make contact with other owners and he started to try to track down other remaining examples of Suuronen's iconic creation. By 2004 Pisani had become one of the world's foremost authorities on the Futuro House and in that year he created Futuro-House.net a website dedicated to finding and documenting the remaining Futuro's. Along the way Pisani was likely the single biggest contributor to a resurgence of interest in the Futuro that has seen many more examples identified, many more fans appear and many more websites, blogs and articles dedicated to the Futuro [yours truly included]. For most part I would say thank you to Richard for that though a part of me "blames" him for the change in the cost of aquiring a Futuro which is certainly no longer $2000, more like $50000 or more [which makes it beyond my reach]. Just joking of course - Richard - I take my hat off to you; keep up the good work. Sources & Reference Futuro-House.net New York Times \| Phil Patton \| 072805 In Print - Books & Magazines Plastic Culture \| Pages 100 Got new, updated or corrected information or an image I could use? I am always looking for additional information, history, details, images, videos; just about anything Futuro I guess - if you would like to contribute please use the Futuro Contact Form at the bottom of the main article or email me. As far as images go I am particularly interested in those that are either significantly better than the ones already on this page or show a different aspect or detail. If you own an image meeting one or both of those criteria I would love to be able to use it on this page but I will simply provide a link if that is your preference. Where permission is granted to use an image on the page appropriate attribution will be provided by means of a link to the original image, a link to a website of your choosing or both.