Perhaps you ’ve heard ofHouston ’s kinda - notable beer can house , the anatomical structure that eschewed traditional Al siding for the PBR - containing diverseness . Fifty thousand potty ' Charles Frederick Worth . And that ’s cool and all , but it was built in Houston , aka thefourth - braggy city in America . And you’re able to discover 50,000 beer rear end in Houston sitting by dumpsters on a Tuesday .
Now try that in a remote Ithiel Town in the Yukon , 35 mile from the nearest food market computer memory , and almost 300 nautical mile from the dear city . And make the build with glass . In sub - freezing temperatures . sound impossible , right ? Well , not if you ’re Geordie Dobson , who side his house in the bantam mining townsfolk of Keno City completely with beer bottles .
Where do you get an idea like this?
Keno " City " is a little misleading of a name . The town ( also credibly a little deceptive ) has a universe of 25 , which drops to 13 in the wintertime . It ’s an active atomic number 47 - excavation residential area that has draw mineworker since the nineteenth century .
When Dobson get in there in tardy 1952 he purchased the Keno City Hotel , an eight - room boarding house that held one of the metropolis ’s two bar . Since far-flung recycling had n’t yet hit the outer reaches of the Yukon , Dobson was stuck with all the empties that hungry miners went through at his saloon . And if you acknowledge anything about mineworker , that means there were more than a few . His choice was to either determine something to do with them , or force them all the way to Whitehorse , about six minute aside .
Looking around Ithiel Town , Dobson saw some of the old miners using beer bottles alternatively of windowpane panelling in their houses and figure they must be good for insularity . So he commence layering the small " stubby " bottles ( think Red Stripe ) into the mortar of his house . Four years and 32,000 bottles by and by , it was completely covered .
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Where it stands today, it may not stand forever
Though Dobson ’s detachment theory work out , and this two - chamber bungalow ( all over with water bullet ! ) was said to be the warmest in Keno City , no one has occupied the planetary house since Dobson leave town . The Keno City Hotel is under fresh ownership , and its proprietors have opt to populate elsewhere .
regrettably the sign has started to sink , one regular told me at the Keno City Hotel bar . ( He prefer not to be distinguish ; probably why he dwell in a town of 25 people in the Yukon . )
" All those nursing bottle are operose , ya love , " he say . " And that permafrost ca n’t go for it . So if you bet , the foundation ’s start to slip into the ground . "
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Sure enough , it is . If you pass to line up yourself anywhere near the Yukon , you should probably check this out . Much like a fate of the other gelid lineament of this region , it might not be around forever .
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