The Bottle House
The Bottle House in the 1960s, photograph from National Archives of Australia.
Located on Opal Street, The Bottle House is a tourist attraction and museum housed in a unique building made almost entirely out of glass bottles.
The Bottle House was built in 1967 by Tex Moeckel. The building is designed with a highly pitched roof, almost A-frame, with corrugated iron. The walls are made from bottles cemented into place. Inside are several small rooms and a loft.
Dave Martin operated The Bottle House for a time in the 1970s.
The Bottle House currently houses a small museum of opal mining and mineral items, an impressive collection of vintage bottles — not just the ones in the walls — artworks and other vintage items.
Article: Edited by Russell Gawthorpe. LRHS research compiled by Len Cram and Barbara Moritz. Sources: LRHS oral history, Lightning Flash Newspaper, 1 July 1993.