The largest treehouse in the world

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The children who are building a "secret shelter" right in the tree can hardly think about where the largest tree house worldwide. However, can you call it a house? This is a whole house thirty meters high! And it is located, let's say right away, in the city of Crossville, Tennessee, USA and it was built by the labors of a single person.

This wonderful house belongs to the preacher Horace Burgess. In the not so distant 1993, in his head, as he believes, the voice of God sounded: "If you build a house of wood, I will see that you do not leave the material." Whether this voice was real is a question, but in reality, the tree house created by Horace Burgess, hardly anyone doubts: it is built around a white oak tree 25 meters high and almost 4 meters in diameter. There are six more similar trees around it, but only the Horace Burgess oak boasts 80 rooms, dozens of entrances, rafters, ladders and nooks that all the kids in the world with their secret houses would envy.

Perhaps the preacher Burgess was helped to build such a structure by his second profession as a carpenter; and having joined the timber construction, he became a landscape designer. V huge tree house 10 floors with an average height of 3.3 meters - more than in an ordinary block house!

A homemade sign next to the wooden palace reads: "Welcome friends!" Indeed, every day this attraction receives 400-500 visitors under the shade of the foliage. Above is a bell tower weighing two tons, and ten acetylene cylinders play the role of bells in it.

Tree house, built by Horace Burgess to the glory of God, is about to enter the Guinness Book of Records. True, this requires that all of its countless rooms (and their total area is more than 1000 square meters) be measured and documented - not an easy job, because during this time new rooms will surely appear in the house!