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Eagle Rock Dome Comes Into its Own
After a year of intensive restoration, the well-known geodesic dome on Colorado Boulevard is just about ready for commercial use.
There’s still some eight weeks of work to be done on it, but after a year of labor, a geodesic dome building owned by the owners of Eagle Rock Montessori School on Colorado Boulevard is nearing completion.
The 39-foot-high 1970s building was built from a kit by Eagle Rock Montessori School Director Ute de Lara and her husband, reports the Eastsider L.A., adding that at one point the de Laras had decided to tear the whole thing down because it had been in a state of disuse for years and was in a poor condition. The couple was reportedly dissuaded from doing so by a Silver Lake architect who was hired to work on revamping the dome.
De Lara told Eagle Rock Patch last year that she planned to lease “The Dome,” as the building is popularly called, for commercial purposes. If she does so, it may well be the first geodesic commercial space in Northeast L.A. if not the whole of Los Angeles.
Click here to read the Eastsider L.A. article about The Dome.
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