I’ve seen some pretty bizarre-but-impressive treehouses in my day, but the Minister’s House is by far the most impressive, if only through its sheer size.
Located in Crossville, Tennessee, the Minister’s House took Horace Burgess 14 years to build around an 80-foot-tall white oak tree, with a diameter of 12 feet. The wooden edifice itself is 97-feet-tall and it’s supported by six other strong trees that act like natural pillars.
Burgess says he started working on this giant treehouse after he had a vision back in 1993. God spoke to him and said: “If you build me a
treehouse, I’ll see you never run out of material.” And so he spent the next 14 years building God’s treehouse, using only salvaged materials, like pieces of lumber from garages, storage sheds and barns. So, as far as Horace is concerned, God did provide him with all the materials he needed.Although he never bothered to measure Minister’s House (he estimates it must be about 8,000 to 10,000 square feet), he did count the nails he had to hammer into it, 258,000. It cost the 56-year-old landscape architect around $12,000 to construct the world’s biggest treehouse.
400-500 people visit Minister’s House every week, most of them tourists from out of state who heard about a 10-story-treehouse somewhere in Tennessee.
I found the photos on this obscure Hungarian site, but I doubt they actually own them. If you know who these belong to, let me know so I can credit them.
HAVE BEEN THERE BUT COULD NEVER CAPTURE PICS LIKE THESE.
Looks like a fire trap to me
Yeah right, a 12′ diameter. I don’t think so.
It isn’t Soaring Woodshealven or Caras Galadhon but puts Tarzan and the Swiss Family Robinson to shame.
Amazing. Not a real treehouse, though.
10 years from now when those trees grow, that house tears apart.
It’s not a real treehouse in my opinion, but ot’s amazing.
i want to live there.
This treehouse is awesome I just saw it this past week it is unbelievable. This is something that everybody should go see…. if you dont have nothing nice to say about this treehouse that means that you havent seen it or been up it.
SO COOL