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House in the shape of a boot 12 photos ^Favorite

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Probably, the most famous boot-shaped house was built in 1948 by Maillon Haines, in Pennsylvania, this is such a State in America who is not in the know. They built this boot not for fun, but in as a publicity stunt. Eccentric Haines was the head of the shoe sales empire in the central states.

The building was built on the model of tall shoes with a wooden frame structure, reinforced reinforcement and covered with cement plaster. The boot house has five different levels with three bedrooms, two baths, a kitchen and a living room. The kitchen is located on the heel, the living room is on the toe, two bedrooms at the ankle, and the ice cream shop is up. Shoe motifs are present everywhere, from stained glass design to decoration on a wooden fence that surrounds the property. On the door of the main entrance in a stained glass window a portrait Colonel Henson, It was originally used as a guest house.

The fate of the big shoe went through various ups and downs, in 1964 it was sold to the dentist, then ice cream was sold there, and only in 1987 did he return to the Hanson family. The current owners bought the house in 2004. Here is a story. Here you can see the Big Boot from two sides.

Apparently, the idea with a shoe seemed interesting, because houses of this form began to appear in different countries. I don’t know their stories, but they are probably interesting. Here, you can appreciate a few photos of residential boots.

This one looks more like a rubber boot, probably in damp weather it is quite comfortable in it, and next to it is a specific boot.

But this is a specific shoe theme, with a sole.

It seems that this house was not originally a boot, just then a sock was attached and here is a vivid example of how to make something original from an ordinary house. And the second, it seems, was thinking so.