Barry Braswell is carefully looking for new stewards for his family’s iconic Monolithic Dome Home situated on 40 acres in the untamed foothills of the San Bernadino Mountains of California. Built by Braswell and his uncle, Vista Dhome is 4500 square feet and features a spectacular view.

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What should have been a quiet, ordinary Sunday afternoon for Ruth and Al Braswell wasn’t. Temps that dry and fateful day reached above the 100-degree mark—the perfect conditions for a brush fire. The Bryant Fire of August 11, 2002, spread rapidly and ferociously. Within a short time, the flames reached the surrounding wall and outlying buildings at the Braswell estate.

One of the things that Dr. and Mrs. Al Braswell like best about their Monolithic Dome home in Yucaipa, California, is all the fun they had—and continue having—designing it. Braswell says, “I don’t think we will ever be really finished with our dome. We’re in it, so in a sense, it is finished, but we keep coming up with more ideas and things we want to add. We just have so much fun doing it.”