The World's Littlest Skyscraper — Attraction in Wichita Falls

Interesting story, but probably not worth the visit for that alone. You can Google the story, which is basically about a fraudulent builder in the early 1900s who scammed folks into giving him money to build something far smaller than expected. Hence the world's littlest skyscraper.

The building is currently owned by an antique shop, which has its items on the first floor, and you can see them on the way up the old and narrow stairwell. On the top floor, there is a historical drawing of the building and some interesting facts you can look up online. And that's about it.

If you want to see some antiques, worth a visit. Otherwise, this is an old, neglected, and sketchy part of town that your average visitor wouldn't want to visit, let...

A must-see for everyone! The story is really amazing: we weren't sure whether to be impressed and amused, or upset by the greed and fraud. For being constructed in 1919 it's still in wonderful shape, and the story truly is impressive. It's not often a (Texan) man is celebrated for luring in who-knows how many investors into one purchase, then skips town before anyone understands that he advertised and sold the same property to multiple people...it really is incredible that he got away with it. Well...he was never able to show his face in North Texas again so perhaps it was a loss...

During the official After Hours Art Walk in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, I had the opportunity to visit to visit the World's Littlest Skyscraper, also known as the Newby-McMahon Building to explore one of many historic buildings in the area. Now home to Hello Again, an antique shop with souvenirs of this historic site and reasonably affordable furniture and home decor with friendly staff to boot, the trip upstairs to the top was quite the view for sure. I'd personally recommend a quick visit here so that you too can tell your friends that you were at the World's...