Houston, Texas - Beer Can House

Houston, Texas - Beer Can House

John Milkovisch drank 39,000 cans of beer, then decorated his house with the flattened empties. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

Houston, Texas - Beer Can House

Here is view of the beer can house in May, 2007. The beer can siding and fences are intact, but all the can tab curtains appear to have been removed. [Matt Kirby, 07/20/2007]

[RA: Ronna Linder sent us a similar observation and noted "There is a sign on the property that indicates that the 'Orange Show Center for Visionary Art' is now preserving the property and may have removed all of the beer cans as part of the restoration (whatever that may entail)."]

Houston, Texas - Beer Can House Fix-Up Funds Landed by Orange Show
Houston's beloved Beer Can House will undergo a major restoration, funded in part by a $125,000 Houston Endowment grant obtained by the Orange Show Foundation. The Orange Show acquired the late John and Mary Milkovisch's beer can-covered home in 2001.... [03/19/2005] Complete News Story

Houston, Texas - Beer Can House widow dies; Orange Show Foundation to restore
Mary Milkovisch, widow of John "I'm gonna drink all these beers and cover my house with the cans" Milkovisch, joined her husband when she passed away in a nursing home in March. Mary had soldiered on as the tenant of Houston's infamous Beer Can House for over a decade since John's death.... [05/19/2002] Complete News Story

Houston, Texas - Beer Can House

I work for The Savvy Traveler on NPR. I called the people at the Beer Can House trying to arrange a visit, left a jolly message, and received a call back a few days later from the angriest man I've ever come across, telling me in no uncertain terms that I wasn't welcome. He was so angry he could scarcely catch his breath. But he never told me why he was furious, he was just blazing furious. I wouldn't go within twenty miles of the place now, and you might want to advise tourists of the same. [Cash Peters, 10/01/2000]

[RA: ALERT TO ALL TOURISTS: Avoid getting Beer Can House residents angry.
ALERT TO ALL TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: Please be nice to the Savvy Traveler, and you might be featured on their show! If you are nasty to the Savvy Traveler, you will be shunned. ]