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Mon, Oct 29 2007

The Longaberger Company Basket Office Building

This basket making company, The Longaberger Company decided back in the day to make their home base office their best advertisement. I’d say it’s a pretty powerful message about how much they adore their product.

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Outstanding Features

  • “Offices are situated around a seven-story, 30,000 sq. ft atrium where employees and guests can enjoy the natural daylight from the skylight.
  • Two basket handles are attached to the building with replica copper and wooden rivets.
  • The handles are heated to prevent ice from forming.
  • Two Longaberger tags are attached to the sides of the building. The gold leaf painted tags are 725 lbs each and measure 25′ long x 7′ tall x 3″ thick.
  • A majority of the cherry woodwork in the building was harvested from Longaberger Golf Club® in Hanover, dried and milled in our Malta facility, sawed and shaped at our Construction Woodshop, finished and installed by our Construction Division.”

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Building Facts

  • “Property size: 25 acres
  • Building capacity: 500 employees
  • Building footage: 180,000 square feet
  • Total weight of building: Approximately 9,000 tons
  • Total weight of handles: Approximately 150 tons
  • Number of windows: 84
  • Seven stories in height
  • 192′ long x 126′ wide at grade, widening to 208′ long x 142′ wide at roof
  • 160 times longer, wider and taller than the Medium Market Basket”

I wonder if they all have picnic tables instead of desks.

Have you all been playing the Scavenger Hunt? I certainly hope so. You don’t have that much time left!

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Comments

  1. By 한국인 아이유 빠돌

    아이유빠돌

  2. By Roshni M.

    MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ………….Interesting. Whos is the architect?

  3. By Roshni

    Whatever I say is already been commented on, but not seen

  4. By Roshni M.

    And the award goes to the Architect:-)

  5. By Roshni

    Its not the photographer, its the architect:-)

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  7. By Jennifer Chait

    Sad that you’re not chatty. Actually, I’ve known about this structure for a long time but always forget about it and your whole apron deal reminded me. So… I guess it seems like a building you’d like. It’s as close as I can get to an apron here.

  8. By marye

    I would comment and tell you how cool that was if I was chatty.