Williamstown, Kentucky: Metal Tepee

The Metal Tepee has been painted an odd vanilla color....

The teepee is a bit worse for the wear. It has a "No dumping" sign on the Home Depot-style front door. The castle is now encased in siding, and is nothing special. There is a well/cistern between the teepee and former castle, which is a little creepy. My kids also found an old timey key outside the building and had fun trying the locks.

The "Metal Tepee" is still in great condition. I passed it on 03/02/09. It's on US-25, 2.5 miles south of Williamstown (or 9 miles north of Corinth), right at the intersection where KY Route 36 breaks off US-25 and heads east. Google Maps (which is often wrong) calls this area "Hilltop, KY".

The white building next to it doesn't really look much like a castle. More like a large white box.

The tepee is actually in Williamstown and served as a gas station office in the '50s and '60s. It sits in front of an abandoned truck stop that resembles a castle.

Does anyone know anything about the apparently abandoned aluminum(or painted galvanized steel..It's been there a long time with no visible corrosion..It doesn't look like stainless steel) tipi along old U.S. 25, between Corinth and Williamstown? I've gone past this thing a bazillion times since around 1974, and it seems to be standing due to some form of arrested entropy -- it hasn't decayed but little since the first time I saw it. No indication as to what it was originally, though it looks like it's being used as junk storage now.