In 1970, a local Toronto architect built a copy of Richard Foster's famous revolving house (from 1968) for himself and his wife. Unlike the Foster version, this round house did not rotate. The house was constructed a few miles north of the Toronto city limits. His wife never liked it, and in 1980 they sold it to a couple who had recently emigrated from Czechoslovakia. The recent émigrés fell in love with it immediately, as they were huge devotees of modern design and architecture, and were very excited to discover such a forward looking house in their new homeland. The husband died suddenly in 1986, but his widow continues to live in the house, without heat, water or electricity.

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