Glass House, Contemporary residence in British Columbia, Canada

The Glass House is a residence built by David H. Brown starting in 1952 on the east shore of Kootenay Lake near Boswell, British Columbia. It is built of about 500,000 empty embalming fluid bottles laid in a single layer with their short necks facing inward, wired between wooden strips reinforced with cement, which support inner walls of cedar boards. The main house is shaped like a three-leaf clover with circular rooms, and a central staircase steps up the uneven rock; the main floor holds a living room with a large fireplace, a master bedroom and a kitchen overlooking a terrace, with a second bedroom upstairs.

David H. Brown began building the house in 1952 on solid rock above the east shore of Kootenay Lake, near Boswell, saying he wanted to "indulge a whim of a peculiar nature". The fantasy-castle look drew traffic from Highway 3A, and the loss of privacy led the Browns to open it as a summer roadside attraction.

David H. Brown built the house from about 500,000 empty embalming fluid bottles that would otherwise have been thrown away, and the word "OPEN" in yellow letters on the tower marks the roadside attraction the Browns ran in summer after traffic on Highway 3A cost them their privacy. Visitors can also see a wishing well with a waterwheel, an archway, a bridge and several towers built the same way.

The house sits on solid rock above the east shore of Kootenay Lake, beside Highway 3A near Boswell, and is open to visitors only in the summer months. Inside, a short central staircase links the rooms, which sit at different heights because of the uneven rock beneath. The upstairs second bedroom is off-limits to visitors.

The bottles were laid with their short necks facing inward, and strips of wood wired between the necks and set in cement hold the cedar-board inner walls. Around the house stand a wishing well with a waterwheel, an archway, a garden shed, a bridge and several towers, all built the same way.