The Automobile Takes to the Road




Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1908/00/00 City Ramp Parking Garage, Spokane, WA
1910/05/02 The Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building opens as a showroom for both Baker Electric and Standard Automobile Co. Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building, Cleveland
1911/00/00 The B F Goodrich Company opens a shop on Michigan Avenue to sell, install and distribute rubber tires. BF Goodrich Company Showroom, Chicago
1912/00/00 Henriques drafts a two-story concrete building for Ralph A Bennett's rising auto business, meant for display, repair, and parking. As 1912 advances, ambitions grow and the plans expand to four stories, sending the modern structure upward over Sioux City. Motor Mart Building, Sioux City
1913/00/00 Halsey-Packard Building, City of St Louis
1914/00/00 William Harvey, operator of the Cucamonga Garage and Cyclery, builds a Spanish Colonial style gas station on the lot next door to his own. Cucamonga Service Station, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
1917/00/00 A small service station is built for J C Laird in the unincorporated village of Flat River, now Park Hills, Missouri. Known as OK Oil, fueling is the only service Laird offers. The office dates from the original construction. Howlett Gulf Station, Park Hills
1920/12/01 The Ford Company continues to refine its assembly techniques, until by 1920 a Model T is produced each minute of the working day. Highland Park Plant, Ford Motor Company, Highland Park, MI
1921/00/00 Weyl Service Station, Trenton
1922/00/00 Warner's Filling Station and House, Geneva, NE
1927/00/00 Phillips Petroleum establishes retail gas stations with the debut of their '66' brand. Phillips' standard station design is based on a Tudor Revival cottage with a pitched roof and faux chimneys marked with a "P" created by Carl Petersen for Pure Oil.
1928/00/00 The Conabeer Motor Company is built for Tench C Coxe. The showroom, with oak and travertine-panelled walls, the company offices and a "testing room" are located on the first floor. Conabeer Chrysler Building, Asheville
1931/00/00 A Cotswold Cottage style gas station is built as Phillips Petroleum gasoline station. Vickery Phillips 66 Station, Tulsa, OK
1934/11/00 Construction begins on a Tudor Revival cottage style gas station for August Kreinbring to capitalize on the traffic brought through the town by the Lincoln Highway, one of the busiest east-west transcontinental routes in the United States. Kreinbring Phillips 66 Gas Station, Lowden, IA

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