"Originally constructed to represent Detroit at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago, Michigan Stove Co.’s 25-foot-tall world’s largest stove was restored and re-erected at the Michigan State Fair in 1998," the Atlas Obscura reports..

"It had been dismantled in 1974. It took about $300,000 to restore the stove. The money was raised by a collective of companies, unions and individual donors. The stove (was) on top of a mound at the Michigan State Fairgrounds and weighs 30,000 pounds.

"An antique replica of an old coal and wood burning stove, the monument is representative of the stove industry that Detroit was known for before the automobile. It is an icon of Detroit’s first industrial era. At the turn of the century, the city was known as Stove City, USA."

"The World's Largest Stove (also called The Michigan Stove and Mammoth Garland) was an oversized replica of a kitchen stove that was made for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair as a representation of Michigan Stove Company and its products.

"After the fair finished, the replica was displayed and used for advertising for decades at the company's headquarters in downtown Detroit. The wooden stove replica eventually deteriorated to a poor state and in 1974 the pieces were stored in a warehouse. In the late 1990s, the replica was restored and given a permanent home at Michigan State Fairgrounds. In 2011 it was destroyed by fire, likely caused by a lightning strike.

"The World's Largest Stove was an oversized reproduction of Michigan Stove Company's popular kitchen cooking stove. The company, founded by Jeremiah Dwyer in 1872, wanted to grab the attention of visitors attending the 1893 Chicago World's Fair so had the replica built to represent what the company manufactured. Built from oak upon a steel frame, the replica was 25 feet (7.6 m) high, 20 feet (6.1 m) wide, 30 feet (9.1 m) long, and weighed 15 short tons (14,000 kg)."  (wikipedia)

"An antique-style wood-burning stove that weighed 15 tons and stood 25 feet high. Built in 1893, it was dismantled in 1974, then un-dismantled in 1998. Destroyed by fire in August 2011," the Roadside America reports.

"the World's Largest Stove burned down, a news event so absurd that a lot of people thought it was a joke. 25 feet tall, the stove was built of wood -- on reflection, a dubious strategy -- for the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), to represent the Michigan Stove Company. It was eventually moved to Detroit, restored in 1998, and continued to be a quirky distraction for travelers. The giant stove was incinerated by a bolt of lightning (supposedly)."

"The giant stove of Detroit is on view at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit, Michigan. This is an antique replica of an old coal/wood burning stove, the manufacturing of which was a major industry in Detroit, before automobiles. Also, the giant tire near Detoit has picked up a giant nail!"

"The state is returning memorial bricks to families who once donated to an effort to restore the "World's Largest Stove" at the Michigan State Fairgrounds," the Michigan Live reports.

"A fundraising effort in 1998 restored the stove and it was displayed at the fairgrounds at the end of a pathway of hundreds of bricks engraved with the names of donors.

"The Michigan Land Bank, which is overseeing the planned redevelopment of the fairgrounds by a group of investors that includes former NBA star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, is now trying to return the memorial bricks to the original donors.The land bank is cataloging more than 1,200 bricks and plans to return many of them."

"In the 1870s and 1880s, stoves were Detroit's leading industry, thanks to the abundance of iron ore in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and ease of transporting it on the Great Lakes, especially following the opening of the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., in 1855. (Iron ore is used to make steel and iron, required at the time for stoves," the Historic Detroit reports.

"Indeed, Detroit would become known as the Stove Capital of the World, and was home to the "big three" of stove manufacturers: the Detroit Stove Works, the Peninsular Stove Co., and the Michigan Stove Co., which claimed to be the biggest stovemaker in the world, with 1,200 employees and pumping out more than 75,000 stoves a year. Michigan Stove produced Garland stoves; Detroit Stove called its products Jewel.

"As part of the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Michigan Stove commissioned the building of a giant wooden replica of a Garland stove. And giant is no understatement: The stove weighed 15 tons and measured 25 feet high, 30 feet long and 20 feet wide. After the exposition's closure, the stove was sent back to Detroit."