Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 171, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 20, 1980 Page: 17 of 36
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THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring*, Texas, Sunday. July 20. IW—SECTION 1—5.
Texan goes underground to find serenity, scenes
By MIKE COCHRAN There is only the sound of a
Associated Press Writer splashing fountain and the
HEREFORD, Texas (AP) — glimmer of fish in the pool.
Outside, a hot and blustery wind Plants and flowers ring the
howls across the High Plains, courtyard, enhancing the
lucking up dust and dirt raised seascape in the distance,
by the threat of a fierce thun- The seascape?
derstorm. Well, not exactly. But such a
Inside, all is serene. The scenario is no fantasy, and a
house is quiet and clean, bathed tall, lean Texan named Jay
in bright sunlight. Soft Swayze is here to tell us about
stereophonic music fills the underground living,
spacious rooms. Actually, he’s been talkingn
Most puzzling, however, is the about his subterranean homes
view from the terrace. One does for years. But now people are
not see swirling dust nor beginning to listen. He says his
ominous clouds, or hear the is an idea whose time has come,
sirens that signal the approach “I’m saying that un-
of a tornado. derground living gives'us the
best of two worlds,” he said does speak out of a certain bias
from his home in this in behalf of subterranean
Panhandle0 community of dwellings. He built an un-
17,000. derground home in 1962 in
For those sick of soaring nearby Plainview and lived
utility costs, home repair bills there with his family for many
and disruptive noise, Swayze years, i *
may be right. He played a key role in
‘‘We’ve gone to the moon and similar underground projects in
back, and cured a number of Central Texas and the Colorado
common and uncommon ills,”
he said. “The one thing we
haven’t done is utilize the un-
derground potential.
“It offers us privacy,
security, safety, and controlled
environment and a better
quality of living.”
Swayze is no dreamer, but he
Rockies and. built a prototype
for the New York World’s Fair provide builders, developers,
book. j Swayze, 55.
A Swayze home, the first “We’ve got 50 to 60 un-
"total energy" house to date, is derground homes in 11 central
under construction north of and western states and we’re
town and will be heated and just getting into commercial
cocoled through a combination buildings. Some day they will
of surface solar collectors and replace conventional
an underground swimming buildings.”
pool. Envision a vandal-proof
It is a $160,000 project. school house, for instance, or a
Swayze’s book is designed to chain of subterranean steak
in 1964-65.
Abandoning the building
business several years ago,
Swayze devotes his energies
now to planning and designing
such structures and chronicling
their virtues in a forthcoming
realtors, businessmen,
educators sand homeowners a
glimpse of his subterranean
world.
"We can do almost anyuthing
better in the earth than we’ve
done on the earth," said
houses.
According to Swayze, the cost
of an underground home is 10
percent to 20 percent higher
than the cost of conventional
housing, but reduced insurance,
utility and repair bills quickly
offset the initial expense.
A 2,000-square foot home draining the pocketbooks of
within a 3,000-square foot shell everyone, Swayze is qaefc to
would cost roughly $120,000, he note that the savings potential
slid. The most expensive home “ substantial and the al-
to date was a $2.3 million model mosphere control healthy,
somewhere out west He explains: “At a given
“We don’t give locations depth the earth maintains a
because of customers' constant temperature which
requests,” he said. "They at- can be utilized for both healing
tract the curious from all over and cooling making additional
the world." heating and cooling minimal ”
Since the "Geobuilding,” as
he calls it, is not exposed to "Well give you anything
wind, rain, heat and cold, such from a sunny day to a starfiUed
structures last for generations, night,” saidSwayze.
"This makes the home a How about claustrophobia?
lasting heirloom for families," "Occupants enjoy a feeling of
hesaid. spaciousness, never
With energy on the minds and claustrophobia," hesaid.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 171, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 20, 1980, newspaper, July 20, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824808/m1/17/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.