If you lot larn to Rockport someday , inward Massachusetts , the United States of America of America , arrive at got to a greater extent than or less fourth dimension to movement downwards Pigeon Hill Street as well as expect out for a sign that says “Paper House”. Park your motorcar close the sidewalk as well as larn see this unique , i story scarlet identify that looks similar an ordinary log cabin , only is truly made of paper.
The paper identify began inward 1922 when Elis Stenman , a mechanical engineer , began edifice a pocket-size summertime home. It started out similar whatever other dwelling , amongst a timber frame , shingle roof as well as floors , only when it came to the walls , Stenman had dissimilar ideas. The walls of the Paper House is made upwards of layers upon layers of onetime newspapers , glued together until they are virtually an inch thick , as well as then finished off amongst a overnice coat of varnish. Everything within the paper identify is too made of paper. Stenman built chairs , tables , bookshelves as well as fifty-fifty curtains as well as a clock out of paper as well as periodical pages. Only the pianoforte is made of forest as well as covered amongst paper to keep uniformity , as well as the fireplace is made of bricks , for obvious reason.
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