Slatersville, Rhode Island - Milk Can - Bottle Building
- Address:
- Hwy 146, Slatersville, RI
- Directions:
- I-295 exit 9. Hwy 146/Eddie Dowling Hwy north two miles to the milk bottle, on the right.
- Hours:
- Always visible.
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As for its demise following its relocation, my understanding has always been that there was no potable water available to service the building (due to highly contaminated ground water and no available town water main to tap into),therefore, the Health Dept. could not allow it to reopen. It's a darn shame that such a wonderful piece of architecture and R.I. treasure is being allowed to fall to waste. If I could put it in my backyard...I would! [L.A.Prescott III, 09/01/2009]
Manville, Rhode Island - Milk Bottle Building The abandoned milk bottle building is still standing as of July 2009.
Here's a little history: The building dates back to 1929. It went out of business in 1968 and sat vacant until the state wanted to use the land it was on for a highway exit ramp in the 1980s. Stanley Surtel Jr. and his father-in-law Frank D'Andrea bought the structure for $1,100 and had it moved from its original Lincoln, Rhode Island location to a new spot a mile down the road on Route 146 in North Smithfield.
Almost immediately, the new owners encountered problems. It took preservationists and highway officials 17 months to devise a way to move the building without damaging it. Then regulations for installing a septic system added another delay. Surtel and D'Andrea put $50,000 into restoration when the state informed them the ground water on the new location was horribly contaminated with 600 times the allowable amount of benzine. Never reopened, the structure has been sitting on that same plot since 1991.
It's on a busy road, but I parked at the gas station next door easily and took some pictures. [Gunnar Johnson, eccentricroadside.blogspot.com, 08/01/2009]
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