R.W. Lindholm Service Station

The R.W. Lindholm Service Station in Cloquet, Minnesota is derived from a design by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright as part of his Broadacre City project, a Utopian vision of a new type of urban landscape. It is the only gas station designed by Wright.

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Cloquet, Minnesota - Frank Lloyd Wright - Broadacre City - Utopian

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Built in 1956, its design is derived from the Broadacre Standardized Overhead Service Station which was designed as part of the Broadacre City project in the 1930s. The idea was essentially totally de-centralized American urban landscape. The plan was never implemented anywhere, but it did foreshadow the decentralization that occurred after World War II. Studding the landscape of Broadacre were Usonian houses, solitary skyscrapers, and a wide variety of buildings needed to service the community. Wright and his apprentices designed and included many of these in Broadacre City models that toured the country.

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1956 - 1930s - World War II - Usonian - Skyscraper

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This gas station turned out to be the only part of Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre designs that made it into reality. In deviation from the original Broadacre design, the Lindholm Station has gas pumps on the ground instead of overhead fuel lines. Another feature of the original design is a second-story service waiting area over the attendant's area. This space is also found in the actual building, but is currently not used for this purpose.

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This working Phillips 66 service station is open to the public, and is located at the corner of Route 45 and Route 33 in Cloquet, Minnesota (outside of Duluth, Minnesota).

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Phillips 66 - Duluth, Minnesota

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It was constructed in 1956 after the pre-fab Usonian James B McBean house in Rochester, Minn, and before the Marin County Civic Center in California, during a year that saw construction of 18 Wright buildings, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The Lindholm family had previously had Wright design their home "Mäntylä" in 1952, also in Cloquet, Minnesota.

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Marin County Civic Center - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - New York City - Mäntylä - 1952 - Cloquet, Minnesota

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