Milton/Lewes, Delaware, USA

There are many instances of Futuros being photographed with automobiles; for example the Royse City Futuro with an awesome 1929 Ford Model A or a DeLorean posed with the Carlisle Futuros among many others. This photo however was a first, this Futuro and perhaps the longest serving mode of transport, the horse.

The photo was posted to Instagram by depublicarchive on 080319. Our thanks to Gary Knox who alerted us to this interesting Instagram post.

This Futuro recently made an appearance in the local press. An article by James Fisher and Jason Minto appeared several times in local publications as well as online around the end of August 2016. The article was a rather general story about the Futuro and it’s resident, Richard Garrett, and it really did not tell us anything new. The various iterations of the article were accompanied by a nice set of photos, both exterior and interior.

The photos below show the article as it appeared in The Da

An article by Ron MacArthur titled «2015: It’s Still A Space Oddity» was published 062315 on CapeGazette.com. In this well researched article MacArthur provides some interesting information and history relating to the Milton and Houston Futuros as well as some historical information on New Dimensions Of Delaware Inc. a Futuro distributor «back in the day» owned and operated by Joe Hudson (who is also the owner of the Milton Futuro).

Information about New Dimensions Of Delaware Inc. can be found

We received an email from John Gardoski a week or two ago in which John recounted some of his personal recollections of the history of this Futuro. John grew up just a short distance from the Futuro and still lives only about a half mile away. John tells me that:

«… this particular (Futuro) was used as the office for the airplane hangar it’s next too, through the 1970’s it was the office for Allen Chorman’s aerial spray business …»

John recalls how in the 1970’s he and his friends would ri

The photo below was shot by Nan Palmero on 072813. The photo, shown below under CC 2.0 license clearly shows signs of degradation in the body of this Futuro. This is not new and can be seen in many earlier photos but Nan’s photo shows the degradation very clearly.

We received an email from Barney Vincelette, owner of the Houston Futuro this morning; Barney tells us that the Milton Futuro was located in Broadkill Beach until the late 1970’s before being moved to its current location. A second Futuro in Broadkill Beach was demolished.

In a post in the Yahoo Group futurohouse dated 010513 Barney Vincelette, owner of the Houston Futuro dropped a little nugget of information relating to this Futuro. In the comment Vincelette tells us that this Futuro is owned by Joe Hudson:

«who was selling them until about 1977 when he sold me (Vincelette) my Futuro House in Houston, DE»

To us it is cool to learn that at least one of this individuals who was involved in the «business» of Futuro’s retains ownership of one to this day.

For a Futuro that has been photographed as much as this one there is, surprisingly, almost no information on its history on the web; at least not that we have been able to find.

Google Earth has satellite imagery dated 032392 which clearly shows the Futuro on site so it has been at its present location for at least twenty years but other than that there is really no information out there other than a few blog posts and articles which have photos but no information:

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