The Beer Can House all shiny and restored

John Milkovisch loved beer. He really loved beer. According to his son Ronald, John never had less than “8 to 10 cases stacked up in the garage.” John Milkovisch emptied over 50,000 cans of beer from 1968 to 1988, using flattened cans to decorate his house and workshop. Now the house is open to the public for their gawking pleasure.

The Beer Can House was dedicated Thursday and will open up tommorrow for the public in Houston, Texas. It was purchased from the Milkovisch by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, and around $400,000 (or almost half a million dollars) was spent restoring the project for the last seven years. The Mayor Bill White commented that it must have been “hard work… generating all those beer cans.” Really? For only a dollar you can see the metal refuse of that possible alcoholism…

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art is as weird as the house they bought. They are a foundation started named Jeff McKissack, who didn’t love beer but oranges. Obsessed with the citrus fruit, the Houston postman built a giant house of connected chamgers, balconies, and tiled walkways that all extol the health benefits of oranges. It only costs a dollar to tour, just like the Beer Can House.

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