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The seven-story, basket-shaped building in east Newark, Ohio—once the main office of the now-defunct Longaberger Company—was offering its first public tour since closing in 2016.
The Longaberger Company was an American manufacturer and distributor of handcrafted maple wood baskets and other home and lifestyle products. The company opened in 1973, and its handcrafted baskets were a popular home decor item in the 1980s and 1990s.
The 180,000-square-foot, seven-story basket has a 30,000-square-foot atrium topped with a glass ceiling. The basket’s 150-ton handles—which took eighteen months to construct—contain a special heating element to keep ice from forming, and potentially crashing through the roof, in the winter.
NEWARK -- The Longaberger basket building, vacated by the basket-maker in 2016 and saved from foreclosure in late 2017, will not become the luxury hotel announced 15 months ago.
Ohio's Famed 7-Story Basket Building Might Be Doomed. Though the massive basket looks like a misplaced piece from a giant’s picnic, you won’t find any oversized sandwiches or sweets tucked ...
A seven-story building in the shape of a picnic basket – complete with handles – is set to be converted into a luxury hotel. The former Longaberger Co. headquarters is in Newark, Ohio.
NEWARK - With new owners comes a new vision for the Longaberger basket building, but specifics of that future have yet to be released.
“The World’s Largest Basket” was once the headquarters of The Longaberger Company—a building designed to mimic one of the company’s signature baskets. These days, however, it’s abandoned. So what happened to this Newark, OH cultural landmark and the company that built it?
The seven-story, 180,000-square-foot building opened in 1997 as the headquarters of the Longaberger Co., which makes baskets and pottery. It was designed by NBBJ and Korda Nemeth Engineering to...
The seven-story building on 21 acres was a replica of one of the Longaberger Company's baskets. It is topped by two handles that weigh 75 tons apiece.