The World's Largest Treehouse

This was no ordinary treehouse.  This was a tree-mansion.  The Minister’s House, located in Crossville, TN, took Horace Burgess  14 years to build.  It is built around an 80 foot tree and the treehouse itself is 97 feet tall.  It is supported by 6 other trees that act like natural pillars.  Burgess says he started working on it 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”.  So he built.  And built.  He estimates it is between 8000 and 10000 square feet.  He used 258,000 nails to build and he built it mostly out of salvaged wood from local barns, etc.  It is like a maze in there, there are so many rooms, passageways, hidden doors, ladders, stairs, etc.  Chris went all the way to the top and with the wind blowing the way it was, he was sure the thing would topple over.  Up in the bell tower is a bell, which he rang.  Some pictures….