{"id":297841,"date":"2010-02-09T11:16:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"355 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-02-09T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:16:06","slug":"onans-gold-pyramid-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/297841","title":{"rendered":"Onan&#8217;s Gold Pyramid House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/illinois\/lake-county\/wadsworth\">Wadsworth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/illinois\">Illinois<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/architectural-oddities\/outsider-architecture\">Outsider Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The six-story-tall, 17,000-square-foot Gold Pyramid House in Wadsworth, Illinois has to be one of the most bizarre homes ever constructed. Its builders, Jim and Linda Onan explain in three nouns and two adjectives what their unique home represents: &#8220;Power, Gold, Mystery, Exotic, and Impressive.&#8221; The Onans are subscribers to the seventies cult theory of &#8220;pyramid power.&#8221; Their home is believed to be the largest 24-karat gold-plated object in North America. <\/p>\n<p>Located on an island and surrounded by a giant moat, the Pyramid House has many remarkable features, including a 50-foot statue of King Tut, a metal palm tree and, a three car garage topped by three smaller pyramids.<\/p>\n<p>Join the Atlas Obscura on Obscura Day &#8211; March 20th, 2010 &#8211; for a tour of the immaculate and eccentric Gold Pyramid House outside of Chicago. The six-story-tall, 17,000-square-foot house is located in Wadsworth, Illinois and is believed to be the largest 24-karat gold-plated object in North America. The home&#8217;s builder, Jim Onan, will lead a special Obscura Day tour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/pyramidhouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"142\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wadsworth, Illinois | Outsider Architecture The six-story-tall, 17,000-square-foot Gold Pyramid House in Wadsworth, Illinois has to be one of the most bizarre homes ever constructed. Its builders, Jim and Linda Onan explain in three nouns and two adjectives what their unique home represents: &#8220;Power, Gold, Mystery, Exotic, and Impressive.&#8221; The Onans are subscribers to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}