Gardner, Massachusetts is know locally as “chair city.” Once home to the Heywood-Wakefield Furniture Company Gardner has taken its signature industry to heart with a series of giant chairs over the years. The Bicentennial Chair was built in 1976 to take back the title of world’s largest chair from a chair in North Carolina. There have been giant chairs of one type or another in Gardner since 1905 and even though this one is no longer the world’s largest it is still a wonderful roadside attraction sitting in front of the Helen Mae Sauter Elementary School. The current chair stands over twenty feet tall.
