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Bottle House Museum

Kaleva, MI

John Makinen built this unusual house in 1941 using about 60,000 chipped or flawed glass bottles from his local bottling business. The Kaleva Historical Society now operates it as a museum of Finnish-American community history, with the colored bottle walls remaining the building's main curiosity.

Filed under museums: small, specific collections run by people who care far too much.

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Source: kalevamichigan.com/bottle-house-museum

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