Giant Lighthouse on the Prairie

I don't know who shot this photo, when, or where, but I'm fascinated out of all proportion by the tower pictured here. It completely dominates the street. Is it a church? A grain elevator? A lighthouse?

Oh, what a wonderful idea. Someone should build a fully functional lighthouse somewhere deep inland on the prairies. Giant Lighthouse on the Prairie! It would be accessible only by rail, and the protagonist would roll up to it on a handcart in the opening credits. Every week a new stranger would stop by and the lighthouse keeper (who is not the protagonist) would solve the stranger's problems. The protagonist, a teen, would complicate matters.