Newark, Ohio -
World's Largest Basket

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No matter how menial your daily labors or how incompetent your boss, work can't be all bad if you're employed in a seven-story-tall basket.

Address:
1500 East Main St., Newark, OH
Directions:
On the south side of Hwy 16, east of town. Exit at either Dayton Rd (from the west) or E. Main St. (from the east) and proceed along E. Main St. to the basket.
Admission:
Free.
Hours:
Daylight, illuminated at night. (Call to verify)
Phone:
740-322-5588

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No matter how menial your daily labors or how incompetent your boss, work can't be all bad if you're employed in a seven-story-tall basket. Roadsideamerica.com Report... [01/01/3001]

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Basket with label. World's Largest Basket

The metal label at the top is a great detail. [Kathleen, 01/09/2011]
Basket building. Giant Basket

The Longaberger basket company headquarters is housed in a BIIIIIIGGGGG basket. It is so enormous, it is almost scary.

When first built, a local pilot flew his small Cessna type plane through the handle of it. I believe he got in a bit of trouble but I would have loved to have seen it. [RPD, 06/24/2008]

Basket Building World's Largest Basket

This is the Longaberger Basket Headquarters in Newark, Ohio. [Amey Kelly, 12/19/1999]

Basket Building. World's Largest Basket

Longaberger basket company, the ones who built the world's largest basket in Dresden, have gone a big step further. Their new 7-story headquarters just east of Newark OH on Rt. 16 is in the shape of a basket, complete with huge metal handles. I passed it Saturday, May 30. [Cary Dice, 06/11/1998]

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