Thursday, March 17, 2005
Momma, don't let your babies grow up to be Texas interior decorators
Houston's Beer Can House to Be Restored
March 17, 2005 - Associated Press
HOUSTON - An art endowment will keep a Houston home decorated with thousands of flattened beer cans from facing its last call. Beer-lover John Milkovisch attached the cans to his house over a 20-year period as an alternative to more traditional home repair. He also made beer can fences and garlands to hang from his roof.
The home was becoming a nationally celebrated folk-art site when the Southern Pacific upholsterer died in 1988 at 75, but has suffered years of decline. Now, with a $125,000 Houston Endowment grant to the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, efforts to restore the home are on the fast track.
"The Beer Can House represents the sort of idiosyncratic individualism that Houstonians and Texans pride themselves on," said Emily Todd, the endowment's grant officer. ¶ 2:26 PM
March 17, 2005 - Associated Press
HOUSTON - An art endowment will keep a Houston home decorated with thousands of flattened beer cans from facing its last call. Beer-lover John Milkovisch attached the cans to his house over a 20-year period as an alternative to more traditional home repair. He also made beer can fences and garlands to hang from his roof.
The home was becoming a nationally celebrated folk-art site when the Southern Pacific upholsterer died in 1988 at 75, but has suffered years of decline. Now, with a $125,000 Houston Endowment grant to the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, efforts to restore the home are on the fast track.
"The Beer Can House represents the sort of idiosyncratic individualism that Houstonians and Texans pride themselves on," said Emily Todd, the endowment's grant officer. ¶ 2:26 PM
