Frank Lloyd Wright Waiting Station
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Frank Lloyd Wright Waiting Station
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The only functioning gas station ever designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, known as America’s greatest architect, is located in Cloquet, Minnesota.
This is inside the second floor observation deck or what Wright referred to as the “Waiting Station”. Wright saw the station as a cultural center, somewhere to meet a friend, get your car fixed and have cup of coffee while you waited.
He first began working on a design for a standard prefabricated gas station in the 1920s. It was his hope to eliminate the frequent “eyesores” lining American highways and to develop a facility that would offer a variety of customer services in addition to the sale of fuel. Wright further expanded on this idea with a gas station design that he did in 1934 for his utopian Broadacre City project.
Copyright 2018 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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March 27th, 2018
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