Nothing is as heartwarming as a funny-looking dog. You just know he's your best friend EVER.
Second on the heartwarming list has to be a funny-looking building — it simply HAS to be a good place if it looks that bad.
Of course, sometimes a structure looks bad because of the architectural sensibility of the time. Victorian buildings, for instance, are the absolute definition of "WAY too much of everything!" 
Or mid-twentieth blocks that eschewed anything that might suggest humans were inside.
Then there's Kennedy-era cool. Like the A-Frame Wells Fargo branch built in the early 60s in Eureka, California. The idea was, I think, to suggest Mountains and skiing and a Winter Olympics vibe. That's just my opinion, of course, but I'm generally right about things like this that don't matter.
In 1944, Wells Fargo plopped a trailer at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, to provide quick financial services for service people and employees at the base. The trailer was there till the mid-60s, before Wells Fargo consolidated the several branches there into new buildings.
In 1960, American Trust Company and Wells Fargo merged. The combined company had an office aboard the cruise ship SS Monterey. The sign detailing Fiji currency suggests to me that the biggest business at the window was currency exchange. Whatever the case, it was a nice assignment, I'll betcha.
A few years later, a new Wells Fargo branch was being built in Placerville, California. The Company set up temporary quarters in a double-wide trailer on the Fairgrounds. There is a reason this is funny to me. Now I know temporary quarters in trailers are not unusual in any business, and the fairgrounds are a large space with limited use. It was a smart decision. It's just that when you see the photo, it looks like "a double-wide on a fairgrounds."
All the comedy you expect from that phrase happens. Sorry.
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