Klingstone is a self-sufficient house on the rock.
This amazing three-story house was built on a tiny rocky island near the American city of Jamestown in 1905. Strangely enough, the house has survived centuries and only twice underwent reconstruction.

The owner and builder of the house is Joseph Wharton. He built housing for his family in protest, after the government took away his land and summer cottage to expand the urban area of Georgetown. Then the American also came up with the idea to build a house where no one would have his home on it.

Klingstone is a botanical term for a poorly separable bone. This is a kind of hint that there was nothing to be taken from Joseph here. Previously, the pier was leading to the house, but it was demolished by a hurricane in 1938.

The house was bought back in 1961 by an architect, one of the owner's distant relatives. Klingstone decayed. So I had to carry out the reconstruction. The building has its own electricity due to solar panels and a windmill, as well as stocks of filtered rainwater. The project is the pride of the owner of Henry Wood and his three sons.





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