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However, Elwood was quickly beaten himself by an 18-foot tall gnome discovered in Poland. At the time he was constructed, he beat out the former champion garden gnome, Gnome Chomsky, who can be found in a mini golf course in New York.

Elwood stands 15 feet tall and cost about $8,000 to build. The town of Brandon intended to build the world’s largest frying pan, but upon construction they found the pan they built was 3 inches shorter than a frying pan found in Washington.Įlwood, the World’s Largest Concrete Garden Gnome, can be found in Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa. According to signs near the roadside attraction, the pan can cook 528 eggs, 88 pounds of bacon, or 440 hamburgers. The frying pan was built to promote Brandon’s recurring “Cowboy Breakfast” fundraisers and in hopes of bringing in tourists. While not the largest in the world, the frying pan in Brandon, Iowa, is still an impressive nine feet wide and 14 feet long, weighing in at 1,500 pounds. However, it is up and running for riders today. The elevator has had a somewhat rocky history, with two different fires that destroyed the cables and the cars. He hired John Bell, a local engineer, to construct the elevator, and it became a reality in July of 1882. The commute by horse and wagon was too long for him to return home for lunch and take a nap before he had to return to work. He lived at the top of the Bluffs and worked at the bottom. Graves, a former mayor and state senator who was also a promoter of mines and a banker. It is 296 feet in length, and elevates passengers 189 feet from Fourth Street up to Fenelon Place. The Fenelon Place Elevator Company in Dubuque, Iowa, holds the title of World’s Shortest and Steepest Railway. World’s Shortest and Steepest Railway, Dubuque Prior to Glasgow’s project, the title of “World’s Largest Wooden Nickel” belonged to a 13-foot nickel in the Historical Wooden Nickel Museum in San Antonio, Texas. The wooden nickel was erected and the community protests did the job, preventing the road construction. This would be a nearly $7 million project that risked destroying some of the natural beauty surrounding the existing road. According to the Iowa City Press Citizen, in the early 2000s Johnson County wanted to pave Newport Road from Highway 1 to Prairie du Chien Road.

This 16-foot wooden sculpture was built in 2006 by Jim Glasgow as a political protest. The World’s Largest Wooden Nickel can be found in Iowa City on the east side of Dubuque Street. However, Strawberry Point still claims to hold the title, as the building in North Carolina is not shaped like a strawberry but only painted like one. In 2003, it became rivaled with a building painted to look like a strawberry in North Carolina, built by a business owner named Lee Berry. This 15-foot tall fiberglass sculpture is located in front of City Hall and was dedicated in the late 1960s. The World’s Largest Strawberry is located in Strawberry Point, Iowa. World’s Largest Strawberry, Strawberry Point Take a tour is the best of Iowa's superlatives. Iowa is home to countless "largest" (and sometimes smallest) items - whether that be the biggest wooden nickel in the world or the state's largest frying pan.