Littlest Skyscraper Virtual Cache
Hidden : 7/21/2002
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: virtual (virtual)

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As the story goes, money was raised for construction of Wichita Falls' first "skyscraper" back during the 1919 oil boom, when people were investing in anything that had even the faintest hint of a quick payoff, by a couple of guys who sold shares to raise $200,000 for construction. The property was to be located right across from the city's most exclusive and busiest hotel, making it a prime office space, indeed. The only problem: The blueprints these "developers" showed investors were scaled in inches rather than feet. The building went up, the scam artists fled with most of the cash they'd raised and Wichita Falls got a dubious landmark. That's the story, but nobody really knows whether it's the absolute truth. But something like that had to have happened because the building is just too unusual to have been planned and built for actual, practical use.

The building has been featured in Ripley's “Believe It Or Not” and in a variety of publications because of its diminutive size (it is 10 feet wide, 18 feet deep and about 30 feet high) and its alleged history. According to lore, Robert Ripley first gave the 40-foot-high building the name "the World's Smallest Skyscraper." Over the years, the building became merely the Littlest Skyscraper.

The building sits on the corner of a street and an alley. This is the only alley that I know of in Wichita Falls that has a name. To claim this cache, email TerraExplorer the name of the intersection where this landmark sits and the name of the business currently in this building.

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