The remaining four Cape Romano dome homes have indeed collapsed into the Gulf of Mexico following a final lashing by Hurricane Ian, photos and videos from a local sheller confirm. Alex Demooy of ...

The same question is on the mind of many in Southwest Florida: "What's the deal with the domes?" It's complicated. The iconic Cape Romano dome home sits hundreds of feet offshore near Marco Island and ...

They stood sentry in the blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico: a string of white domes raised on columns that, depending on the viewer, resembled igloos or jellyfish or some sort of sci-fi creature ...

The remains of the Cape Romano Dome House in Florida, taken in 2019, after it’d already experienced sea-level rise. Credit: Shutterstock The Cape Romano Dome House, built in 1982, was an iconic—if ...

It was an architectural icon, a forebear to hurricane readiness and a cautionary tale about building too close to the shore. The Cape Romano dome home, completed in 1982 on a sand spit of Marco Island ...