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A view of the Dick Brothers Brewery Bottle House that was constructed in 1909. Dick Brothers was founded in 1857, and was one of the largest beer brands in the early 20th century rivaling Anheuser-Busch at one time. The brewery closed down in 1951.
Today the complex of buildings, known as the Dick Brothers Brewery District, has been redeveloped as a community of arts, culture, history and entertainment. The complex is the centerpiece of the South Side German Historic District, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Quincy, known as Illinois's "Gem City," is the seat of Adams County. Located on the Mississippi River, this west central Illinois community had a population of 40,111 at the 2020 census. During the 19th century, Quincy was a thriving transportation center as riverboats and rail service linked the city to many destinations west and along the river.
I invite you to visit my Adams County album for more views of the residential and commercial architecture in Quincy.
Sunset through the window
This is a fine example of Australian bush architecture. Short of building materials, early mining camp settlers made their shelters out of whatever they could get their hands on, including discarded beer cans.
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DSC_9971-4625-edit: Close-up of one of the walls inside one of the bottle houses in Egmont, Prince Edward Island.
Rhyolite, Nevada
The walls of the house consist of 50,000 bottles embedded in adobe mud. The house was built by a miner in 1906. There's wasn't much wood in the area, but there were 50 saloons in town. They produced a lot of empty bottles!
Rhyolite was founded and briefly thrived during a mining boom in the early 20th century. It's been a ghost town for many years.
Another replica house at Calico Ghost Town,
Cool looking for a minute, but what's up with "Calico" written in glass and those horrible "OTHER SIDE" signs?
Care to see an authentic, albeit slightly too restored bottle house? Go see the one at Rhyolite, Nevada.
Throwback Thursday
Tom Kelly Bottle House
Rhyolite Ghost Town
Nevada
The Tom Kelly Bottle House in Rhyolite, Nevada, is a fascinating relic of ingenuity and resourcefulness from the early 20th century. Built in 1906 by Tom Kelly, this unique home was constructed using over 50,000 discarded glass bottles, mostly from beer and medicine bottles, due to the scarcity of traditional building materials in the remote desert town. The translucent walls shimmer with a kaleidoscope of light, giving the house an otherworldly charm. Though Rhyolite saw a rapid decline after the gold rush boom, the Bottle House remains a testament to human creativity and an enduring piece of Nevada’s history.
One of the highlights of visiting Rhyolite is seeing this house. Apparently when the town was booming, there was no shortage of beer bottles. Tom Kelly got beer bottles from the bars in town during the gold rush and built this home. It is made up of thousands of Busch beer bottles and is the only home that is still standing in Rhyolite in this kind of condition. I took a close up of the bottles in this shot. You can see the AB imprinted in the bottom of many of the bottles.
Stories from the Porch
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Wood being scarce, Tom Kelly decided he'd build a house with other material: glass bottles. Lots of them. Kelly collected over 50,000 bottles in six months from the 50 saloons in Rhyolite. He built a three-room house with porch and quaint gingerbread trim. Inside, the walls were covered with plaster. It's really a unique, beautiful and comfortable house. I illuminated the scene with warm white and teal (GST) light during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. I had special permission to photograph this at night. It is ordinarily locked up at night.
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(Plate 0124) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. May 2023.
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The outside light shines through the multi-colored bottles of one of the buildings at Hannah's Bottle Village in Point Prim, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Rhyolite, Nevada is a ghost town. In it's heyday it was a very busy place and it's said to have had 50 saloons at one time.
Tom Kelly, a prospector, decided to settle in Rhyolite in 1905 but building materials were in short supply. He collected 50,000 empty bottles from the saloons in less than six months, enough to build a three-room house from them, complete with a porch. It was lived in - though not by him - until 1967.
No-one lives in Rhyolite now but it's a tourist attraction and filming location.
One of the highlights of visiting Rhyolite is seeing this house. Apparently when the town was booming, there was no shortage of beer bottles. Tom Kelly got beer bottles from the bars in town during the gold rush and built this home. It is made up of thousands of Busch beer bottles and is the only home that is still standing in Rhyolite in this kind of condition.
Andamooka. Population 260.
These Kuyani lands had a salt lake called Andemorka which was the name adopted by the first pastoralist, Charles Burney Young, for his sheep station in the 1870s. Prior to this the first white man to explore this area, with the help of an Aboriginal youth, was Charles Swinden who returned home with some alluvial gold. He fell ill at his Riverton home and died there before he could tell anyone of its location but it was in the Andamooka region. At that time Swinden of Riverton, had his main station at Woolundunga north of Port Augusta. Andamooka station had its difficult times and in the early 1890s a station worker murdered his wife. The police trooper was sent a message to come and arrest the man which he did. The worker was taken to Port Augusta for trial but a jury acquitted him as it was decided that his poor wife died of heat stroke. Charles Burney Young’s venture at Andamooka was taken over by his son but it always lost money and eventually the Bowman brothers took it on for some time.
Opals were discovered here in 1930 when two station workers discovered opals whilst sheltering from a thunderstorm. No town existed for decades but miners or noodlers camped at the site including some local Aboriginal people. The town emerged slowly from the miner camps. The first Post Office opened in 1947 and was named Andamooka. By 1959 Andamooka had 300 residents for which a third were Aboriginal people. Opal mining increased in the 1960s and more town facilities were established as mines created more “dug outs” for their homes. Opal mining was mainly done by individuals and the town gained a reputation for independence and a dislike of government regulation. The opals also attracted miners from diverse cultural backgrounds. At its peak in the 1960s Andamooka had 2,000 residents. In 1978 when the first town newsletter was published it was printed in three languages- English, Hungarian and Yugoslavian.
Historic buildings in the town include several dugouts in the hill side to keep them cool in the long hot summer:- Frank Albertoni’s house in 1931 which is the oldest house on ten mine field as Andamooka opal was only discovered in 1930; Tom Brady’s dugout built in the late 1930s with other rooms nearby and the outside toilet on the hill top behind the dugout; Mrs Perry’s kitchen built in 1951 but it replaced an earlier hut built in 1931; and Andy Absalom’s house built in 1942 and he was the father the Broken Hill artist Jack Absalom. The town also has a mining machinery museum on the drive into the town and there is a café in the local galvanised iron public hall. Behind the hall is the Andamooka Primary School – high school students are bussed into rOxby Downs Area School. Further along the main street is the Post Office, opal gallery and small museum. In front of it is the famous bottle house made of used beer bottles. Nearby by is an Aboriginal gallery and the Long Bus opal shop. Andamooka is only a short distance from Lake Torrens and it is directly west from Leigh Creek but there is no access across Lake Torrens. To get from Andamooka to Leigh Creek one would have to travel by roads through Port Augusta or Marree. Interest in opal jewellery is increasing at the moment and Andamooka opal has always been known for its rare and exceptional opals. Andamooka opals have flashes of red, orange, green, blue and purple and a distinctive vein structure making them very desirable.
Cool place to stop and take a peaceful stroll through houses made of bottles of every size and colour. A lovely garden is also to be found here. (I sound like I'm typing a review. lol) A very unique stop, to be sure. That is a faux lighthouse in the background, found at the rear of the property. Very realistic.
A "garden" of sculptures made of broken glasses can be found next to the bottle house. www.rhyolitesite.com/bottle1.html
Andamooka. Population 260.
These Kuyani lands had a salt lake called Andemorka which was the name adopted by the first pastoralist, Charles Burney Young, for his sheep station in the 1870s. Prior to this the first white man to explore this area, with the help of an Aboriginal youth, was Charles Swinden who returned home with some alluvial gold. He fell ill at his Riverton home and died there before he could tell anyone of its location but it was in the Andamooka region. At that time Swinden of Riverton, had his main station at Woolundunga north of Port Augusta. Andamooka station had its difficult times and in the early 1890s a station worker murdered his wife. The police trooper was sent a message to come and arrest the man which he did. The worker was taken to Port Augusta for trial but a jury acquitted him as it was decided that his poor wife died of heat stroke. Charles Burney Young’s venture at Andamooka was taken over by his son but it always lost money and eventually the Bowman brothers took it on for some time.
Opals were discovered here in 1930 when two station workers discovered opals whilst sheltering from a thunderstorm. No town existed for decades but miners or noodlers camped at the site including some local Aboriginal people. The town emerged slowly from the miner camps. The first Post Office opened in 1947 and was named Andamooka. By 1959 Andamooka had 300 residents for which a third were Aboriginal people. Opal mining increased in the 1960s and more town facilities were established as mines created more “dug outs” for their homes. Opal mining was mainly done by individuals and the town gained a reputation for independence and a dislike of government regulation. The opals also attracted miners from diverse cultural backgrounds. At its peak in the 1960s Andamooka had 2,000 residents. In 1978 when the first town newsletter was published it was printed in three languages- English, Hungarian and Yugoslavian.
Historic buildings in the town include several dugouts in the hill side to keep them cool in the long hot summer:- Frank Albertoni’s house in 1931 which is the oldest house on ten mine field as Andamooka opal was only discovered in 1930; Tom Brady’s dugout built in the late 1930s with other rooms nearby and the outside toilet on the hill top behind the dugout; Mrs Perry’s kitchen built in 1951 but it replaced an earlier hut built in 1931; and Andy Absalom’s house built in 1942 and he was the father the Broken Hill artist Jack Absalom. The town also has a mining machinery museum on the drive into the town and there is a café in the local galvanised iron public hall. Behind the hall is the Andamooka Primary School – high school students are bussed into rOxby Downs Area School. Further along the main street is the Post Office, opal gallery and small museum. In front of it is the famous bottle house made of used beer bottles. Nearby by is an Aboriginal gallery and the Long Bus opal shop. Andamooka is only a short distance from Lake Torrens and it is directly west from Leigh Creek but there is no access across Lake Torrens. To get from Andamooka to Leigh Creek one would have to travel by roads through Port Augusta or Marree. Interest in opal jewellery is increasing at the moment and Andamooka opal has always been known for its rare and exceptional opals. Andamooka opals have flashes of red, orange, green, blue and purple and a distinctive vein structure making them very desirable.
The Bottle House in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada, was built in 1906 by Tom Kelly from 30,000+ Adulphus Busch (Budweiser) beer bottles donated from the then 50+ bars in town. Tom built the 3 room house when he was 76 but raffled it off, never living in it. In 1925, Paramount Pictures restored and reroofed the house for a movie. It was last inhabited in 1969 and fully restored in 2005. You used to be able to look in the windows and wander on the grounds which has an art work garden and palettes of rusted junk, but they are currently building a fence and walkway around the house so, like many other historic places, it is much less accessible.
Rhyolite, NV
Built by a 76 year old man in 1906 from beer bottles.
For more info: www.nbmog.org/bottlehouse.html
Shadows Have Offended
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Shadow play while illuminating the porch during this night photo with light painting. Wood being scarce, Tom Kelly decided he'd build a house with other material: glass bottles. Lots of them. Kelly collected over 50,000 bottles in six months from the 50 saloons in Rhyolite. He built a three-room house with porch and quaint gingerbread trim. Inside, the walls were covered with plaster. It's really a unique, beautiful, and comfortable house. To create this night photo, I set the camera on a tripod. I opened the camera shutter for a long time. While the shutter was open, I walked around with a handheld flashlight capable of producing different colors and illuminated the bottle house. During the exposure, all the light I shined on the subject was cumulative. This process is called "light painting". Why? Because one uses the flashlight as a paint brush, "brushing" on light, not paint. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. And it's more fun than AI-generated images. I had special permission to photograph this at night. It is ordinarily locked up at night.
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For photos, books, workshops and more: www.kenleephotography.com
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(Plate 0129) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. May 2023.
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House made out of bottles in Rhyolite, Nevada. Rhyolite is a Ghost Town about 100 miles outside of Vegas
Why build a house of glass in a land of rock? Rhyolite, Nevada is located near Daylight Pass, one of the entrances to Death Valley. When gold was discovered in the area at the turn of the 20th century, a town was quickly established to serve the needs of the mining community. Digging proved to be thirsty work, and Rhyolite was able to support several saloons. One of these was run by Tom Kelly. In 1906, at the age of 76, he decided to build himself a house. Although lumber was scarce, what Kelley had in great abundance was bottles. Judging from an examination of the house, the most popular drink at the time was a beer produced by the Adolphus Busch Glass Manufacturing Company, a beer known today as Budweiser. Kelly also had various whiskey, soda and medicine bottles on hand. To construct his new house he laid all the bottles on their sides, with the bottoms facing out, and mortared them together with adobe mud. At the time, water was so scarce that the bottles were used as found, without any cleaning. It took Kelly five and a half months to finish construction of the house. Source: www.nbmog.org/bottlehouse.html