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Elis Stenman’s Newspaper House Experiment in Rockport
Elis Stenman didn’t just make paper clip machines in 1920s Cambridge. He built a house from them.
Well, not from the machines—from newspapers. This Swedish engineer took his factory skills home when he bought land in Rockport in 1922.
First, he rolled papers into rods. Next, he glued 215 layers together for walls…