David H. Brown wanted to find a use for the empty embalming fluid bottles from his funeral business in British Columbia. He discovered that because the glass bottles were square and had short necks, they made excellent building blocks. Brown cemented the bottles in place with the caps on,
facing inward and the square ends facing outward, the air inside the
bottles makes for good insulation.
When David retired in 1952, he travelled all over western Canada,
collecting these bottles by visiting his friends in the funeral
business. Once he acquired around 675,000 bottles, weighing in at 250 tons — he built a
cloverleaf-shaped home, an oval shaped out-building and a turret, all
from these bottles. The home sits on top of a rocky ledge overlooking Kootenay
Lake, David designed glass and rock terraces with lots of flower
gardens, a stream running under a glass and stone bridge, and a path
winding down the hill to the lake.
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