Rhyolite Bottle House - photo and video

Bottle House in the ghost mining town of Rhyolite, Nevada. Built by miner Tom Kelly in 1906 from thousands of discarded beer and liquor bottles.

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2:21 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd9nLMJ_NUU


Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...106#post145324
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...617#post123373

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Originally Posted by Altair

Bottle House in the ghost mining town of Rhyolite, Nevada. Built by miner Tom Kelly in 1906 from thousands of discarded beer and liquor bottles.

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...use_saloon.jpg

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Satisfied with re-utilization, he and two friends begin sourcing material for the first of many room additions...

Brilliant. I like that.

Wife and I visited it again three years ago, just outside of Beatty.