Lindholm Oil Company Service Station

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The RW Lindholm Service Station in Cloquet, Minnesota

The Lindholm Oil Company Service Station (also called RW Lindholm Service Station ) in Cloquet , Minnesota in the United States is a gas station whose design is derived from Frank Lloyd Wright's draft of the utopian urban development project Broadacre City , which represented the vision of a new type of urban landscape design . It is the only gas station that Wright designed. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1985 .

The structure, built in 1956, was based on the design of the standardized gas station. which was part of Wright's concept of a Broadacre City from the 1930s. The idea of ​​the project was a completely decentralized American urban landscape. The plan was never implemented anywhere, but it anticipated the decentralization that began after World War II . Determining the landscape of Broadacre were Usonia houses, lonely skyscrapers and a variety of buildings that were intended to serve society.

“Take the small gas station… In our current gas station, you can see a rough beginning to such a major advance, decentralization; one also sees the future humane institution that we now call "the free city". Wherever gas stations are built - these often ugly and seemingly insignificant accessories, they will naturally persist and grow. [The new city] ... is in a haphazard development all around us, regardless of the apparent forces in the opposite sense. All around us and no plan. The old order is falling apart. "

- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1930

Not only was the gas station the only structure of its kind that Wright planned, but it is also the only design under Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre design that was actually realized. In contrast to the original design, the fuel pumps at Lindholms petrol station are mounted on the floor. This point of the original draft, which provided for the fuel supply line from above, has been changed due to the safety regulations. Another difference to the original design is a two-story service area, which can also be found in the completed building, but is not used for this purpose.

The gas station is operational and is located at the intersection of Minnesota State Route 33 and Minnesota State Route 45 in central Cloquet, about 25 miles south of Duluth .

The structure was built in 1956, after the prefabricated James McBean Residence in Rochester and in front of the Marin County Civic Center in California. That year, 18 buildings were constructed from Wright's designs, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City . The Lindholm family commissioned Wright in 1952 to plan their Mäntylä home .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Watch the little gas station… In our present gasoline service station you may see a crude beginning to such important advance decentralization; Also see the beginning of the future humane establishment we are now calling the free city. Wherever service stations are located naturally these so often ugly and seemingly insignificant features will survive and expand. [The new city] ... is all around us in the haphazard making, the apparent forces to the contrary notwithstanding. All about us and no plan. The old order is breaking up. , Quoted from The Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station Page ( October 23, 2009 memento on WebCite )

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Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '17 "  N , 92 ° 27' 39"  W.