R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home

{{short description|Historic house in Illinois, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home

| nrhp_type =

| image = Preserved R Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlitt Dome Home.jpg

| caption = View from the south after completion of the exterior preservation in late 2014

| location = 407 S. Forest Ave., Carbondale, Illinois

| coordinates = {{coord|37|43|23.22|N|89|13|30.76|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Illinois#USA

| architect = Fuller, R. Buckminster; et al.

| architecture = Modern Movement

| added = February 9, 2006

| area = less than one acre

| refnum = 06000012{{NRISref|2009a}}

}}

The R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home, located at 407 S. Forest Ave. in Carbondale, Illinois, is a geodesic dome house which was the residence of Buckminster Fuller from 1960 to 1971. The house, inhabited by Fuller while he taught at Southern Illinois University, was the only geodesic dome Fuller lived in, as well as the only property he ever owned. Fuller, a prolific architect and engineer, popularized the geodesic dome as a building design, and his house was one of the first geodesic dome residences to be constructed. The home was built and designed by Al Miller of the Pease Woodworking Company. While living in the home, Fuller was awarded nine patents, published eleven books, and designed the Montreal Biosphère, one of his most famous works.{{cite web|last=Gatlin|first=William M.|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home|url=http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/223407.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202100159/http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/223407.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-02-02|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=January 24, 2014|date=October 2005}}

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 2006.