Beer Can House

Beer Can House

Houstonian John Milkovisch worked through the late 1960s to transform his suburban Houston home at 222 Malone Street into the Beer Can House. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=A Man’s 6-Pack Can Serve as His Castle. |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/us/07beer.html?em&ex=1205038800&en=64bce4cfe24aade9&ei=5087%0A |quote=From 1968 until his death 20 years later, Mr. Milkovisch, an upholsterer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, not only emptied 50,000 cans or more of his favorite beverage but also put the containers to good use, cladding his house and workshop with thousands of maintenance-free flattened beer cans (Falstaff was a favorite) and shading the sun with garlands of tinkling beer can tops and tabs. |publisher=New York Times |date=March 7, 2008 |accessdate=2008-03-08 ] It is a folk art monument to eccentricity and recycling. The Beer Can House is now one of Houston's most recognizable folk art icons.

Milkovisch started his project in 1968 inlaying thousands of marbles, rocks, brass figures and metal pieces in concrete blocks and redwood, all of which were used to make patios, fences, flower boxes, and an array of other items. The result was a yard with no grass, as the entire front and back yards were covered with cement. When asked why he did it, John simply answered, “I got sick of mowing the grass.”

Today, the Beer Can House is owned and operated by The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, a non-profit organization founded in 1980 to preserve and present works of extraordinary imagination and provide people the opportunity to express personal artistic vision.

On March 2004, John Milkovisch was named Man of the Week on Spike TV.

References

External links

* [http://www.beercanhouse.org/ Beer Can House official site]


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