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Basket Building Dave Longaberger dreamed up the idea to house his offices FAST FACTS
Founder of the Longaberger Company
inside the world’s biggest basket. The building is a
scaled-up version of the handcrafted maple wood
baskets manufactured and distributed by
Longaberger. Inside the lavish seven-story
building in Newark, Ohio, are marble
floors, cherry woodwork, and
a sweeping staircase.
The Basket Building weighs
approximately 9,000 tons—the
equivalent of 60 blue whales.
Stucco (a cement wall
covering) covers the
building’s steel frame so
that it closely resembles
a handwoven basket.
At 150 tons, the two handles
alone weigh as much as one blue
whale. They are heated in winter
so they don’t get iced up (which
would make them even heavier).

There are 84
windows across
all four sides of
the building. The
lights are left on
at night so the
whole structure
lights up.

More than
4 million real
Longaberger
baskets would
fit inside the
building.

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