A world record stands tall in Williams Bay. It's full of holiday spirit, too. It's a Christmas tree made out of 3,000 pounds of glass.

Area residents donated glass. When the tree's season ends at the observatory, Mack will dismantle and reuse the glass - making hundreds of small Christmas trees to comemorate the Yerkes' project.

The World's Tallest Glass Christmas Tree will go up at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay in early December. The 36-foot-tall tree will be installed over the course of two weekends, Dec. 6-8 and ...

Community art organizers and visitors plan to use recycled glass to build a 36-foot tree in December. This is the third year the event has been held at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

The tree – created by glass artist Jason Mack and producer Rob Elliott – will be 36 feet tall, eight feet taller than the world’s next tallest glass tree, in Murano, near Venice, Italy.

And we sold all the ornaments." Glass artist Jason Mack creates a glass Christmas tree each year at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay as part of a holiday event.

See how the world's tallest glass tree is created each year in Williams Bay The annual holiday tradition at Yerkes Observatory includes the construction of the glass tree as its centerpiece.

This glass tree installation sits outside the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. It's 36 feet tall and made entirely of recycled glass donated by local residents. (Susan Bence/WUWM) ...

"His tree was 28-and-a-half feet, so I decided to make ours 31 feet. "To my knowledge, we're the only two artists who've thrown our hats in the ring with the world's tallest glass tree." ...

The world's tallest glass tree will return to Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay. This year, the holiday spectacle will stand at 36-feet tall, which is eight feet taller than the world’s next ...