Bottle House - Rhyolite, NV - Bottle Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Rhyolite, Nevada Bottle Building - In 1906, in the old ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada a saloon owner named Tom Kelly, built a house out of bottles because lumber was scarce at the time. Reportedly he used some 50,000 beer, whiskey, soda and medicine bottles to build the structure which still stands today. Mr. Kelley was 76 years old when he built the house and it took him almost six months to complete.



The bottle house was restored and re-roofed by Paramount Pictures in 1925 for a movie setting. Afterwards it was given to the Beatty Improvement Association for maintenance as a historical site.



It was leased to Louis J. Murphy and maintained as a museum by him and a woman named Bessie Stratton Moffat until he died in 1956. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Thompson also lived in it, maintaining a museum and a relic shop.



Tommy was a musician who played his accordion in the saloons of Rhyolite when it was a boom town. When the Thompsons died, their son, Evan Thompson maintained it for a while. He was the last known person to live in the house; but now resides in Pioneer, Nevada.



Next to the bottle house is a "garden" of sculptures made of broken glass including miniature houses, bottle ropes, and whole bunch more glass junk, er... treasures.

(The text above was copied from legendsofamerica.com)

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