A huge can.
This amusing milk-can structure was originally built in 1931 and stood on Route 146 in Lincoln, RI. It was a seasonal ice cream store. The business eventually shut down and was boarded up for two decades. In 1989 it was moved up the highway to North Smithfield. Plans to restore it have not as yet come to fruition...or to lactation...and the place stands empty and as a symbol of a certain kind of charming literalism in architecture.
I remember seeing metal cans in that shape, though not that size, when my father used to have a few cows many decades ago. Perhaps Gulliver, in his travels to Brumbidang, encountered a dairy with cans this size, gigantic cows, and Amazonian milkmaids with boobies like Anita Ekberg in the drink-more-milk billboard in Fellini's episode "The Temptatation of Dr. Antonio" from Boccaccio '70.
Today, at its new site, it looks like this...
...and it could become a cute place to live, next door to the old woman who lived in a shoe.
(cross-posted to weird_ri)