This giant icon fashioned of flushboarding and sheet metal sits atop a circular dispensary for cones and shakes—or “cabinets” to native Rhode Islanders. More architecture parlante. Whereas Apex (
PA14) illustrates a concept, here depiction is literal. The Milk Can was moved from a site in Lincoln several miles south which went to new highway construction.
Milk Can
c. 1931. Eddie Dowling Hwy., .5 mile from intersection with Manville Rd.