Cloquet, Minn.: Lindholm Service Station (1958); Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

"From horse-drawn gasoline pumps in the early 1900s to cottage-style full-service stations in the 1920s to self-serve pumps at today�s convenience stores, gas stations have been a mainstay of the American landscape for almost a century. Perhaps no station better exemplifies the stature achieved by this ubiquitous building type than the Lindholm Oil Company service station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Seeking to raise the gas station from a utilitarian structure to a work of architecture, Wright originally conceived this design as a prototype for his Broadacre City proposals of the 1930s. The Cloquet station is the only one ever built from Wright�s drawings.

Constructed of concrete block, cypress wood, glass and steel, the Lindholm service station features a cantilevered copper canopy, radiant heat, glassed-in observation lounge and four service bays. Fire codes thwarted Wright�s plan to supply gas from overhead pumps, which would have left the ground level open for vehicle movement. Although Wright�s hopes for his gas station of the future were never fully realized, elements of the design were later incorporated into many Phillips 66 stations. " [Source]

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Phillips station design influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright.