The website Roadside America is one of my favorites, and easily one of the most ‘classic Roadside America’ is the Beer Can House of Houston!
As you arrive you are greeted by a fence of (of course) beer cans.
In the late 1960s a retired upholsterer named John Milkovisch started inlaying thousands of marbles and rocks into concrete and wood to make landscaping features because as he said at the time ‘he was tired of mowing grass’.
For the next 18 years he flattened beer cans, that supposedly he and his friends emptied, and attached them to his house. Today the estimated 50,000 beer cans cover the entire house and former garage.
The early morning sun shining through the beer can top fence made an interesting pattern on the driveway.
It is owned today by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, who have the interesting exhibit next to Smithers Park.
The stringers on the front of the house sing in the wind. It is said that the beer cans actually help keep the house cooler in the hot Houston summers by reflecting the sun rays away from the house.
The Beer Can House – a Houston classic!
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