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An iconic building shaped like a basket in Newark, Ohio, home to a basket-making company, is to be sold.
Nicknamed the "Big Basket," and belonging to the home decor Longaberger Company, the building is looking for a buyer.
Employees who work inside the seven-storey basket building are being moved to another location in Ohio.
It opened in 1997 and once housed 500 employees of the company, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Now, the company is facing hard economic times. The last employees working in the building are moving out this week.
"The Big Basket is like the St Louis Arch," Jim Klein, a former Longaberger president, told the newspaper.
He wants to get the building on the National Register of Historic Places.
"It's a really important part of south-eastern Ohio history."
The building's shape was the company's founder's idea, the Dispatch reports. It cost $30 million (£22.5 million) to build.
Dave Longaberger had a very specific idea for the building, the Dispatch reports, and would not settle on a design until architects agreed to make it look exactly like one of the company's baskets.
