Pickle Barrel House - Grand Marais MI
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kJfishman
N 46° 40.253 W 085° 59.087
16T E 577654 N 5169092
Pickle Barrel House in Grand Marais MI is shaped like a pickle barrel.
Waymark Code: WMD1Z1
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 11/07/2011
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This home was built for William Donahey an author, illustrator, and cartoonist. It was based on his cartoon "Teenie Weenies". It was originally built on a lake front lot and later moved to Grand Marais.
It is a 16-foot-tall, two story pickle barrel built in 1926 as a summer cottage for William Donahey, cartoonist and creator of the comic Teenie-Weenies.
wikipedia has an extensive write up on the cartoon
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