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WORLD'S TALLEST TREEHOUSE!

      The world's tallest treehouse, located in Crossville, Tennessee, was built by Minister Horace Burgess. It rises 97 feet into the sky, supported by a live 80-foot-tall white oak that has a 12 foot diameter base. Six other trees brace the tree house mansion, but Burgess says its foundation is in God.
      "I built it for everybody. It's God's treehouse. He keeps watch over it," said Burgess, who received his inspiration in a vision that came to him in 1993. "I was praying one day, and the Lord said, 'If you build me a treehouse, I'll see you never run out of material."'

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse
      The treehouse has 10 floors, averaging nine to 11 feet in height. By Burgess's estimates it is about 8,000 to 10,000 square feet.

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse
      He used about 258,000 nails - give or take a few hundred.

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse
      He guesses he only spent about $12,000 on the whole project thanks to his thrifty use of recycled materials.

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse
      Inside there are spiral staircases, a sanctuary, a choir loft, a basketball court, and countless rooms, walkways and balconies.

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse
      The treehouse is topped by a chime tower weighing 5,700 pounds. The chimes were fashioned from 10 oxygen acetylene bottles.

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse



Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse
      The treehouse is meant as a testament to God's glory. And it also offers a place for worship.

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse
      "I kinda feel like Noah's wife when Noah built the ark," said Janet Burgess, Horace's wife. "It's definitely the spirit of the Lord working in him."

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse
      Visitors have a bird's eye view of a garden where Burgess has daffodils, irises, narcissus, gladiolas and wild daisies spelling out J-E-S-U-S.

Shangrala's World's Tallest Treehouse
      "The whole message of the thing is if you come to see the site and climb to the top, you'll see Jesus in the garden, and the preacher didn't have to say a word," Burgess says, smiling broadly.




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