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The Greatest Treehouse in the World

By John Farrier in Architecture, Pictures on Oct 28, 2009 at 2:23 pm



Photo: ZuZu Top

Horrace Burgess of Crossville, Tennessee built a treehouse 97 feet tall. Its 8,000 square feet of floor space is spread over 11 stories. The house is built around a tree 80 feet high and 12 feet wide at the base, so much of the structure extends well beyond the tree itself.

A building of over 11 floors would be expected to have some extra amenities – and the treehouse Horrace has established is no exception. This particular one comes complete with a mini basketball court – if you thought playing you would never live to see guys playing basketball on top of a tree!

The owner of the edifice is a 56 years old landscape architect by the way, and he say an upwards of $12,000 has gone into building thetreehouse . Asked about where he got the inspiration to build the edifice, he cites a prayer vision he got in the early 90s – going further to say that he built it ‘for God.’ Nobody is arguing with him – and nobody is contesting the assertion that it is the world’s greatesttreehouse either. Meanwhile, building work has not stopped at the 11th floor…the building is still a ‘work in progress!’

There are many pictures of the treehouse at the link.

Link via Gizmodo


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  1. Gauldar
    Oct 28th, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    I've heard this one before. They all start proclaiming "Oh ya, eh. It's in the name of God ya know.", and then the next thing ya know this happens!

    http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/scheme/module-system-talk/tower_o f_babel.jpg

  2. taliesyn30
    Oct 28th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    Yup! God commanded that this should happen.

    Looks neat.

    Find out what is going on inside and you may just gag.

  3. mccabe
    Oct 29th, 2009 at 5:57 am

    so much of this is built on the ground that it's barely a treehouse at all. it's a house built around a tree. a pretty cool-looking one, sure, but not the greatest treehouse by far.

  4. Ant Dude
    Oct 29th, 2009 at 9:58 am

    Looks unsafe!

  5. The Foreigner
    Oct 30th, 2009 at 11:14 pm

    “My name is Wicket of Endor, king of kings:
    Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

  6. Jig
    Nov 4th, 2009 at 11:58 am

    now the monkeys will feel completely at home, playing basketball back in their trees.

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