Observed arrival · 2026-10-19
Frank Lloyd Wright’s One Built Gas Station Is Still Pumping
Lindholm Station documents the Cloquet, Minnesota, service station Wright designed for oilman Ray W. Lindholm, which opened in 1958 and is still fueling cars.
- For
- Architecture and road-trip history visitors
- Worth noticing
- The planned roof-dropped fuel hoses were rejected under fire codes; the station instead uses standard pumps.
Field notes
The historical account connects the station to Wright’s 1930s Broadacre City concept, where a service station would act as a neighborhood hub, and traces how the idea reached Cloquet after Wright designed Ray W. Lindholm’s home in 1952. It describes design choices including skylit service bays and a 62-foot illuminated pylon, and notes that Lindholm accepted a cost several times that of a conventional station. A timeline, archive, gallery, and visit links extend beyond the main story.
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