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Title: Bottle House in Michigan
Post by: dr galaga on August 07, 2007, 09:43:07 am
Last week my wife and I were camping up in Manistee, Michigan.  We noticed on the county tourism map that there was a Bottle House Museum in the small town of Kaleva. So, we went to check it out.
The person who built the house owned the local bottling works and used broken and chipped bottles (60,000 of them) to build his house!  As you can see in the bottles, he also bottled Mission drinks and distributed liquor.  The inside of the house looks normal, since they plastered over the inside and houses the local museum.


Title: Re: Bottle House in Michigan
Post by: dr galaga on August 07, 2007, 09:46:08 am
The front porch says Happy Home.


Title: Re: Bottle House in Michigan
Post by: sodaworks on August 07, 2007, 11:56:18 am
That's interesting


Title: Re: Bottle House in Michigan
Post by: bubba on August 07, 2007, 12:20:11 pm
Thats pretty wild..


Title: Re: Bottle House in Michigan
Post by: dr galaga on August 07, 2007, 02:47:28 pm
The air in the bottles is supposed to be a good insulator.  Before the guy built his house, he made an addition to his warehouse out of pop bottles.  He found that the pop would not freeze in the winter when they were in the new room, but would still freeze in the old neighboring room that even had a wood stove running.