Goat tower in Illinois (those are real goats)
Farmer David Johnson of Findlay, Illinois built this magnificent structure for his 11 Swiss mountain goats, who unfortunately didn’t have a peak worth climbing within hundreds of miles. The tower contains 5,000 handmade bricks, 276 concrete steps, a copper turret and is 31 feet tall. “There [...]
Archive for March, 2008
A"butt-er" class of goat shed
Posted in Build Your Own, Modern Folly, tagged goats, shed on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ocean Views from the (Concrete) Treetops
Posted in Folly-esque, tagged concrete tree, restaurant on March 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Okinawa Tree House restaurant (Photo credit: Flickr)
Purely decorative follies do not spring up like trees, so here is a functional folly which has done just that – the Okinawa treehouse which is poised in a banyan tree (or maybe it is a gajumaru tree). Whatever. The tree is in fact concrete.
Back in the late nineteenth [...]
