A Second Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station

in

Buffalo NY

The Ray W. Lindholm filling station in Cloquet traded for many years on its status as the "World's Only Frank Lloyd Wright Service Station".  That is now only partially true!  It's certainly the only working service station that Wright designed and the only one he completed during his lifetime, but in recent years the Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum completed construction of Wright's gas station design for Tydol within its building.

In the late 1920s he completed a number of building commissions in Buffalo NY. Realizing the Tydol Oil Company was planning to open a new filling station in Buffalo, Wright proposed a high quality design. It featured two 45-foot totem poles, an L-shaped copper roof, an observation deck and gravity-fed nozzles. 

That gas station never became a reality in Wright's lifetime though with the vision of James Santoro this featured FLW station did become a reality in Buffalo.

Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station

James Sandoro worked with Taliesin AZ

to acquire permission and the exact specifications to build this station 

within the walls of the BTPAM

with the original exterior terra cotta color

Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned.

The BTPAM location is at 263 Michigan Avenue and near the location Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned his 1927 gas station to be built.  Today, it is now proudly displayed within the museum.  If you wish to see this Wright station, in person, take time to visit the museum and tell James Sandoro you learned of this FLW designed station, only 1 of 2 existing in the country, on my blog.  Thank you.  

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