Twistee Treat (Amherst Rd.)

Massillon, Ohio, United States

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Twistee Treat Amherst is an ice cream stand at 1545 Amherst Road NE, Massillon, Ohio, in a fibreglass building shaped like a soft-serve cone, which the Canton Repository gives as 25 feet tall. It is one of about 90 such buildings made in Florida from the early 1980s.

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Twistee Treat (Amherst Rd.)

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The ice cream stand at 1545 Amherst Road NE in Massillon, Ohio, is built as a giant soft-serve cone, and it reached Ohio in pieces from Florida.

The Canton Repository reports that the 25-foot fibreglass buildings debuted in 1982 and that roughly 90 were made for the Twistee Treat company, which it says was founded in North Fort Myers in 1983. The Repository, citing RoadsideArchitecture.com, says each cone is made of 19 separate pieces of fibreglass, which let a stand be assembled on a foundation on site. The company filed for bankruptcy in 1990.

The Repository reports that Massillon’s Russell Draime bought 13 of the buildings in the bankruptcy sale and brought them back to Stark County; his son recalled that his father built a trailer to haul them. Three were still operating in the county in 2024: this one, another on Lincoln Way West in Massillon, and Chubby’s Treats in Jackson Township. Chubby’s closed in September 2024 after 30 years, and its cone building was put up for auction.

The Twistee Treat corporation was later reformed and idled at least twice, the Repository says, though many original stands were allowed to continue as independent operators. The latest version of the company, Twistee Treat USA, was founded in 2010 and is based in Orlando.

The Amherst Road stand has been owned and operated by the Young family of Massillon since 2001. Its website says it is not a franchise and specialises in soft serve, made from a premium Superior Dairy mix, and hard ice cream. A 2022 Repository roundup also listed shakes, malts, slushes and smoothies on the menu. As of October 2026, the website’s hours page reads “See you in April.”

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Soft serve and hard ice cream are sold from the cone-shaped stand. The stand is run as a seasonal business, according to its website; a 2022 roundup also listed shakes, malts, slushes and smoothies. As of October 2026, the operator’s hours page reads “See you in April,” so check before travelling out of season.

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A public business at 1545 Amherst Road NE, Massillon, Ohio, open to customers during the operator’s season. As of October 2026, the hours page on the operator’s website reads “See you in April.”

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