Built in 1926 as a tourism gimmick, this Arts and Crafts-style building is faced with blocks of locally mined coal rather than ordinary stone or brick. The unusual structure later served civic and tourism functions and survives downtown as a literal house made from the material that shaped the region.
Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
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