This is the World's Largest Catsup Bottle!  Well, technically it's the World's largest catsup bottle-painted water tower.

Standing at 170-feet tall, this water tower was built in 1949 for the G.S. Suppiger catsup bottling plant - the bottlers of Brooks Old Original Rich & Tangy Catsup. The 100,000-gallon water tower was needed for the plant's operations and also to supply a new fire sprinkler system. The tower was designed specifically to be the same shape of their catsup bottles.

By 1960, interest in the business and products changed and the Illinois factory shut down production operations. The old factory was used as a warehouse until 1993 when the property was going to be sold. The future of the water tower was in question.

The Catsup Bottle Preservation Group was formed to try to save and restore the attraction. In April of 1995, enough funds were raised to pay the $77,440 cost of stripping, repairing, and repainting the tower. It was restored to its original look.

Every summer since 1998, Collinsville holds the annual "World's Largest Catsup Bottle Festival."

In 2002, the Brooks Catsup Bottle Water Tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places.