Not everyone was comfortable with the introduction of car culture and gas stations into the American landscape. Conoco and Phillips 66 came up with the idea of making their gas stations look like houses to better blend better into neighborhoods. The stations were built to last. Our station is rapidly approaching its 100th birthday!

The National Register of Historic Places registration form notes the station is a representation of the “House with Bays” subtype of station popular in the 1930’s.

The front facade facing south onto Coal Avenue presents a bold composition of two steeply pitched gables intersected by an equally steeply pitched side-gabled mass. The building, as originally constructed, contained only one service bay.With additional business, a matching bay was added to the east in c.1939