Paper House di Rockport: i muri sono di giornale, il telaio no
Come è fatta la Paper House di Rockport: telaio di legno, pannelli di 215 fogli di giornale, vernice marina e un pianoforte vero ricoperto di articoli.
I pannelli murari sono fatti di circa 215 fogli di giornale incollati e riempiono i muri tra i montanti del telaio di legno.
In questo articolo
Salta a una sezione
Un telaio di legno con i giornali nei muri
Pannelli da 215 fogli, colla di farina e vernice marina
Mobili e pianoforte: cosa è di carta e cosa è solo coperto
Dopo un secolo: la carta si stacca
Quando iniziò l'esperimento, e chi gli procurò i giornali
Da casa estiva a museo, e cosa controllare prima di andare
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- Articolo del 2022: aperta ogni giorno da aprile a ottobre, dalle 10 alle 17.[67]
- Harvard Magazine, senza data: aperta da maggio a ottobre, con ingresso salito a 3 dollari,[68] pagabile con Venmo o con contanti nella fessura della posta accanto.[69]
Domande frequenti
La paper house di Rockport, la casa di giornali, ha muri di carta portanti?
Quanti giornali ci sono nella paper house di Rockport?
Con quale colla è fatta la casa di giornali di Rockport?
Perché Elis Stenman costruì la paper house con i giornali?
La paper house di Rockport è ancora intatta?
Il pianoforte della Paper House è di carta?
Cosa si sa della morte di Elis Stenman?
Quando è aperta la paper house di Rockport?
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- Wikipedia: Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«It was constructed between 1922 and 1924 by American engineer Elis F. Stenman as a summer house.»
- Wikipedia: Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«the house and furniture reused 100,000 newspapers.»
- Fifty Plus Advocate: Rockport's Paper House has endured for a century (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«He began gluing sheets of newspaper together, about 215 pieces thick, to create the one-inch panels for the walls and ceiling.»
- Wikipedia: Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The house is of traditional wooden frame construction and has a wooden roof and floor.»
- Atlas Obscura: Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Elis F. Stenman started building his house in 1922 as anyone else would, with a timber frame, roof, and floors.»
- SPACES Archives: Elias F. Stenman, The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«He began building the small, one-story house in 1922, and framed it out in wood, with a regular wooden floor and shingled roof.»
- SPACES Archives: Elias F. Stenman, The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«He started to do so in 1924, collecting papers on his own»
- Fifty Plus Advocate: Rockport's Paper House has endured for a century (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«He began the endeavor, deciding to use newspapers for insulation.»
- Roadside America: The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«For insulation, Elis filled the gaps between the wooden frame with newspaper, tightly rolled into rods on a device of his own invention.»
- Amusing Planet: The House Made of Newspapers (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«No one is sure what motivated Stenman to use newspapers.»
- Wikipedia: Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Stenman was a Swedish mechanical engineer who built machines for the manufacture of paper clips and tried, unsuccessfully, to invent a steam iron.»
- Cellulose Insulation Manufacturers Association: Homeowners (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Cellulose insulation is a building thermal insulation material which consists of up to 85% recycled paper and cardboard fibers.»
- Cellulose Insulation Manufacturers Association: Homeowners (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Loose-fill cellulose insulation has an average R-value of 3.6 per inch»
- Atlas Obscura: Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«215 layers of paper were stuck together with a homemade glue of flour, water, and apple peels to make 1-inch-thick panels for the walls.»
- Amusing Planet: The House Made of Newspapers (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«glued together until they are about an inch thick, then finished off with a nice coat of varnish.»
- SPACES Archives: Elias F. Stenman, The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«It is estimated that more than 100,000 newspapers wall the home, stacked in 215 layers.»
- Roadside America: The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«when neighbors and friends found out about his project, they donated their day-old papers to his supply.»
- Roadside America: The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Once every paper surface had been sealed beneath a waterproof coat of marine varnish»
- Harvard Magazine: Harvard Paper House, Massachusetts (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«He grafted thousands of sheets together and then slathered on marine varnish.»
- Wikipedia: Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The furniture includes a desk made from accounts of Charles A. Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis»
- Paper House Rockport: interview, 1996 (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The furniture is usable-it's quite heavy.»
- Paper House Rockport: interview, 1996 (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The little rolls of paper are maybe a half inch thick»
- SPACES Archives: Elias F. Stenman, The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Some pieces, like the piano and the fireplace, were of standard materials and were merely covered with paper»
- Paper House Rockport: interview, 1996 (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«it's a real piano and he just put the paper outside»
- Roadside America: The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The piano (Esther played the piano) featured newspaper reports of Admiral Byrd's North and South Pole expeditions.»
- Roadtrippers: Paper House, Rockport (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The piano is the only piece of furniture in the house that is not constructed of, but merely covered in, rolls of paper.»
- Fifty Plus Advocate: Rockport's Paper House has endured for a century (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«A real piano, as well as the mantle of a working brick fireplace were also covered in paper, continuing the motif.»
- Fifty Plus Advocate: Rockport's Paper House has endured for a century (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Elis built the house with electricity and running water, but without a bathroom.»
- Paper House Rockport: interview, 1996 (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«And, no, the outhouse wasn't paper.»
- Fifty Plus Advocate: Rockport's Paper House has endured for a century (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The Paper House still stands 100 years later.»
- SPACES Archives: Elias F. Stenman, The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Despite the glue and the varnish, certain pieces of the walls and furnishings have begun to peel away»
- Amusing Planet: The House Made of Newspapers (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«After nearly ninety years, the top layers of the walls are slowly starting to peel off»
- Roadside America: The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Out on the porch, the exterior walls have begun to peel away in spots.»
- Wikipedia: Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Stenman had intended to clad the walls with wood but instead decided to leave the newspaper as it was as an experiment into its durability.»
- Wikipedia: Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«A porch extending all around the house was added in the 1930s, helping to protect the paper walls from the weather.»
- Roadtrippers: Paper House, Rockport (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«the exterior is treated yearly with fresh varnish»
- Historic New England: The Paper House, Rockport (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Elis F. Stenman began the project in 1922.»
- Raw Vision: A piece of history, the Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«In 1924, Stenman hired a carpenter to erect a frame for the house and lay a wooden floor.»
- Raw Vision: A piece of history, the Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Similarly, he fashioned hundreds of shingles from triangular-shaped sheets of paper.»
- Raw Vision: A piece of history, the Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Stenman, a mechanical engineer and amateur inventor, lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and designed machines to make small wire devices such as paper clips and hook-and-eye fasteners for clothing.»
- Raw Vision: A piece of history, the Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«a quasi-scientific experiment to measure the strength and insulating properties of newspaper and the durability of newsprint.»
- Raw Vision: A piece of history, the Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«He himself proceeded to wrap sheets of paper around a piece of fine wire, rolling them tightly until he had a thin, stiff rod about three-quarters of an inch (20mm) in diameter.»
- Raw Vision: A piece of history, the Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Being a thrifty Swedish immigrant who hated the idea of wasting anything, Stenman began to save the three newspapers that he read each day.»
- Raw Vision: A piece of history, the Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«when the paper walls survived their first winter with little damage, he became curious to discover how long such a house could last.»
- Raw Vision: A piece of history, the Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«One friend, who lived in Washington, DC, gave him foreign newspapers; another wrote letters to each state capital, explaining the house project and requesting a newspaper.»
- Fifty Plus Advocate: Rockport's Paper House has endured for a century (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«He chose outer newspaper layers for the headlines or pictures and covered them in waterproof varnish, carefully leaving the print intact.»
- SPACES Archives: Stenman Paper House booklet (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The experiment has proved a success both in strength and stability.»
- Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce: There was a paper house (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The insulation, made of layers of newspapers stuck together with glue, was varnished on the outside and rather water-proof.»
- Vintage Rockport: Mr. and Mrs. Elis Stenman inside their Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«In 1956, the Boston Globe featured a story about Esther Stenman, who was then 80.»
- Vintage Rockport: Mr. and Mrs. Elis Stenman inside their Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The article talked about the seeming indestructibility of the house, which has withstood fierce winters and strong hurricanes.»
- Wikipedia: Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«By 1927, the Paper House had become a tourist attraction»
- Harvard Magazine: Harvard Paper House, Massachusetts (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Beaudoin lives in the place next door, where the Stenmans moved in 1930 after opening their Paper House as an informal museum.»
- Roadtrippers: Paper House, Rockport (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The Stenmans used the Paper House as a summer retreat from 1924 to 1929.»
- SPACES Archives: Elias F. Stenman, The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«began charging admission after Stenman died in 1942»
- Roadside America: The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Elis Fritiof Stenman (1873-1942)»
- Roadtrippers: Paper House, Rockport (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«In 1942, Stenman died at the age of 68.»
- Fifty Plus Advocate: Rockport's Paper House has endured for a century (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Once Esther passed, the home-turned-museum charged ten cents admission»
- SPACES Archives: Elias F. Stenman, The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«the fee at that time was 10 cents»
- SPACES Archives: Elias F. Stenman, The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«A grandfather clock made in the 1930s includes papers from all state capitals—48 at that time»
- Paper House Rockport: interview, 1996 (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«It was made in the '30s, so there's no Alaska and no Hawaii.»
- Harvard Magazine: Harvard Paper House, Massachusetts (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«while the radio cabinet highlights Herbert Hoover’s 1928 presidential campaign.»
- Vintage Rockport: Mr. and Mrs. Elis Stenman inside their Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Mr. Stenman told a newspaper reporter in 1932 that he had received thousands of offers to sell his furniture, but that he never would.»
- Paper House Rockport: directions and hours (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Hours: The Paper House is open the second Friday of April to the last Sunday of October, 10 am - 5 pm.»
- Paper House Rockport: directions and hours (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Also open weekends in November weather permitting.»
- Paper House Rockport: directions and hours (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Admission is $3.00 for adults and $1.00 for children ages 6 - 10.»
- Good Morning Gloucester: The Paper House (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«It seems to always be open, and is run on the honor system, where you leave your $2 admission in a metal mailbox by the front door of the main house.»
- Fifty Plus Advocate: Rockport's Paper House has endured for a century (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«The house is open daily from April through October, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.»
- Harvard Magazine: Harvard Paper House, Massachusetts (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«She still opens it to the public from May through October—although admission has jumped to $3.»
- Harvard Magazine: Harvard Paper House, Massachusetts (si apre in una nuova scheda)
«Visitors pay via Venmo or stick cash in the mail-slot next door.»