#Missile silo for sale zillow kansas movie
There has also been interest from movie sets to underground data storage. “Potential buyers have said they are interested in using it as a rental property, outdoor storage facility, campsite, or to just have as a novelty. “At first we thought it would be survivalists and preppers who would be interested in it, but now we are seeing people interested in it as a specialty property” he says. The walls of the silo are 2 feet thick.”įigueroa says activity around the listing has been somewhat of a surprise. The amount of concrete used is just incredible. “The doors weigh in excess of 50 tons each. “The silo is 174 feet deep and 52 feet across,” Figueroa says. The 6.1-acre lot once housed a missile in a silo designed to withstand a nuclear attack. It also has “hot and cold running water, a working septic system with lift station, and a water purification system,” according to the listing. The unfinished lower level offers an additional 1,250 square feet. The two-story residence features a first-floor launch control center, where crews once lived. They spared no expense when building them.” “They were built between 19, decommissioned in 1965, and sold to the public in the late ’60s, so they are all privately owned. “It’s an interesting site, as there are only 72 decommissioned missile complexes existing in the United States, and this is just one of 12 located in Nebraska,” Figueroa says. Updates aside, the subterranean spot is rare.
The fact that they are able to live here is amazing.Now, the below-ground, renovated, 1,256-square-foot residence is listed for $750,000. "The history alone is overwhelming," said Polly Figueroa. Several former Atlas sites have been converted into private homes by buyers interested in something different to live in.
In 1965, the billion-dollar Atlas-F missile program was replaced by more dependable, less expensive Minuteman missiles. One of America’s deterrents were the Atlas missile sites in Nebraska.
The Cuban nuclear crisis was averted when the Soviet Union backed down and dismantled its missile sites. Because you aren’t going to live after it.” This home was built in 1961 and last sold on for. The 6,500 Square Feet single family home is a 6 beds, 3 baths property. "If I were you, if you heard there was warheads coming our way. 15513 Missile Base Rd, Eskridge, KS 66423 is currently not for sale. "The launch crews did not know if we were going to have to go to war," Duffy said.ĭuffy called home to tell his family what to do if the Soviets launched nuclear missiles. military on high alert after learning Russia was building nuclear launch sites on Cuba. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba and placed the U.S. "Most of the whole time I was here I was in a missile silo," Duffy said. The Atlas-F nuclear missile could be ready for launch in 15 minutes.Įighty-year-old Dan Duffy of Lincoln was a technician on one of the Air Force launch crews that manned the Atlas sites at the height of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. The steel framework within the silo equals the height of an 18 story building and weighed about 1,500 tons. Through three more blast doors is the massive Atlas silo itself, now mostly filled with water. They have, really, I mean, all the basics that you would need." "So they've got hot and cold running water, and they've got an electric furnace as well as a wood burning stove. "They've got two wells to fill up four 500 gallon water tanks," Mike Figueroa said. The doors open into the two-story living area that used to be the missile site’s command and control center. At the thickest point it looks like it’s probably close to a foot.," Mike Figueroa said. Thirty-feet underground we pass through the first of five steel doors built to protect the Air Force launch team from nuclear attack. Some of the hottest times in the Cold War." "Lincoln had some of the first missile silos ever built in the United States. "Basically when Atlas missiles came along it was this brand new science that the Air Force really took and ran with to supplement their bomber force," Branting said.īranting says the former Lincoln Air Force Base commanded 12 Atlas Missile sites in Nebraska. The North Star Missile Silo was used during the height of the Cold War in the early 1960s and is up for sale, with a price tag of 989,000. Cold War historian Rob Branting, a native of Lincoln, is supervisor of North Dakota’s Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Historic Site.
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