Covington, Kentucky, USA

The Covington based Behringer-Crawford Museum recently put out an interesting face to face chat with Futuro owner Rob Detzel as part of their «Curator’s Chat» series of interviews.

The interview, embedded below, which was originally posted to Youtube 010324 recaps the history of this Futuro and, while it is not new information, it is certainly great to have the opportunity to hear that story directly from Rob himself.

Cincinnati TV station WDRB recently did a news feature on this Futuro; it can be found on Youtube here and is embedded below.

The feature includes some great footage of the Futuro; exterior, interior and, as is so often the case these days, aerial by drone (which interestingly makes the unit look white which of course it is not).

There is also some interesting background information from the station’s interview with owner Rob Detzel. Most interesting to us was the fact that Rob displayed the F

We recently took a road trip to visit family but we were also able to take the opportunity to stop by some Futuros; Danvers, Carlisle and this one in Covington (this takes the count of Futuros we have personally visited to 15½).

At Danvers and Carlisle we were able to visit with the owners and get a view of the interior of the Futuros as well as take in the exterior. In the case of this Futuro that was not the case and we only have exterior shots from the street; however that was enough to lear

This video, posted to Youtube 031520 by MotorcycleDen, includes some nice footage of this Futuro starting around 3:28.

These two videos, one some external footage of this Futuro and the other a nice look inside, were posted to Instagram by isnap_la 051819 and 051919 respectively.

Back on 091016 we added a little information about a mural painted on a Covington area store that included an «impression» of the Futuro. Recently Jarrod Becker, the artist, sent us the photos below of some of the preparatory work he did prior to actually painting the mural; thanks Jarrod.

The 030576 issue of the Mansfield News Journal carried a short article about a Futuro on page 12.

The article includes a single photo and this photo gives a good look at one of the unique features of this Futuro which was manufactured with 8 windows but ended up with 10 when owner Rob Detzel made several major alterations including the addition of two more windows and an extra entrance. In the photo below note the larger than normal spacing between the windows but then also the one pair that ar

It seems that the Futuro House is being «memorialized» in a mural on the exterior of a Covington area Kroger store. The mural, named «Love the Cov», is based «on important elements that give the city its reputation». Obviously the Covington Futuro is one of those elements though the imagery it inspired within the mural is very clearly «general» and not identifiable as specifically relating to the Covington Futuro.

The original of the photo below and a little more information can be found on The

Justin Dahan visited Covington 092615 and sent us this pair of photos; thanks Justin. The Futuro seems to be in pretty much the same condition as in earlier photos. The light over the entrance is an interesting little feature we had not noticed previously.

We often check back in Google Maps to see if locations have updated but we rarely if ever check to see if there is new Street View imagery as that seems to be updated very infrequently but the capture shown below has caused us to perhaps rethink that. The imagery has been updated since we last looked and the capture below is really a rather cool shot of the Futuro with the city in the background. Our thanks to Fabio who posted this shot on his blog La Freccia Ferma. There is also a nice collecti

Cincinnati radio station ClassX recently threw a party to celebrate the release of the Winter 2013 issue of their publication Live Magazine along with the celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Futuro. The party was hosted by Covington Futuro owner Rob Detzel at the Futuro. A digital copy of the magazine, which includes an article on the Futuro starting on page 14, is available online here (it can also be downloaded as a pdf file) and there are photographs and a video in a couple of posts on th

Mike Fair captured this very atmospheric photo of the Covington Futuro 032413; the photo is displayed here with permission. Thanks Mike.

The image below taken by AnDy631 081905 and reproduced here with permission shows the Covington Futuro «Easter Egg»; a «Beam Me Up Scotty» plaque on the door, presumably an «homage» to Star Trek.

In 1973 Rob Detzel purchased this Futuro House and exhibited it at a Home & Garden Show. By 1976 he had the Futuro relocated to the Covington site it remains on to this day.

This Futuro is unusual (and similar to the Willingboro Futuro) in that it only has 8 windows. Anna-Maija Kuitunen in her final thesis for the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Finland «Futuro no. 001 : Documentation and evaluation of preservation need» (available online here) wrote:

«There are many variations of