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Duncan, BC, Canada
"George Plumb bought a site measuring just over an acre in 1962; a year later, he set to work with 5,000 bottles. A former carpenter, he built his little five-roomed house out of every conceivable type of bottle, collected from local industries and donated by neighbours and visitors. Over the years, he used a total of 200,000 bottles."
"The structures around the main building included a Leaning Tower of Pisa, a Taj Mahal, a well, and a giant bottle of Coca-Cola, all constructed of bottles and cement. Plumb surrounded his buildings with animals, some of them sculpted in concrete, others carved in stone. In the gardens, paths between low walls led past flower beds to a small waterfall, water-lily and fish ponds, a totem pole and a small studio. After his death the complex was run as a low-grade tourist attraction, but it has since fallen into disrepair." 1
NOTE: The Glass Castle by George Plumb in Duncan BC has been destroyed. The land was expropriated to widen the highway and when nobody was interested in purchasing and moving the buildings, it was bulldozed. There was interest in preserving the site - a number of articles were written in local papers at the time - but things fell through. (Thanks, Karissa!)
Text and images are from "Fantasy Worlds" by Deidi Von Schaewen and John Maizels, 1999
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