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Dr. Evermore's Forevertron
"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outsider art sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin
Category Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture
For most of his life, Tom Every was a professional destroyer. Tom worked in Wisconsin as an industrial wrecker, thrashing old factories, breweries and any other building that stood in the way. But when he retired in 1983, he decided he would dedicate the rest of his life to being a creator: Dr. Evermore, to be exact.
Dr. Evermore is imagined by Every as a Victorian inventor from Eggington, England, with a back story involving a Presbyterian minister father and a traumatizing lightning storm. Dr. Evermore manifests his creativity in the Forevertron, a massive sprawling sculpture park in rural Wisconsin, one that Every or "Dr. Evermore" says will send him "into the heavens on a magnetic lightning force beam." Every also has put his sculptural skills to use at the nearby wonder the House on the Rock.
Made from industrial scrap, the sculpture park includes a decontamination chamber from NASA's Apollo project, dynamos built by Thomas Edison and scrap metal salvaged from an Army Ammunition Plant.
Obscura Day location: April 9, 2011.
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- Hours M, Th, Fri, Sa 9 am - 5 pm, Su (may not be open during these hours)
- Address US 12, North Freedom, Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States
- Cost Free.
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Hey all, made the requested fixes! Location should be dead on now, self-made has been changed and photos have been attributed and linked to flickr! Sorry for the oversight Maddie, and thanks for taking such a fantastic picture!
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Amazing sculpture but I doubt that it made itself. If you mean by "self-made" that the sculpture is somewhat eponymous with its maker, Tom Every, I would agree. But otherwise every original sculpture could be said to be "self-made" by somebody.
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I am delighted beyond belief that a website I love is featuring a place I love-- and what's more, using one of my pictures to illustrate it! But would you mind including an attribution or link to my photo (and perhaps other folks' photos, too) under Creative Commons guidelines? The original photo is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/_madolan_/469004897/ Thank you!
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Map is off by more than 7 miles. I know this because I Googled dr. evermore's forevertron and first on the list of results was Wikipedia which has accurate coordinates included.
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