Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Gas Station?

Born on July 17th: James Cagney, Phoebe Snow, Donald Sutherland

Quotation of the Day: The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. - Marian Wright Edelman

Living in Illinois, I grew up hearing about Frank Lloyd Wright. For awhile I resided in Oak Park where he had his home and studio and where there are quite a number of his buildings. His signature work is known for its clean lines and I've always admired that. I still can't believe that Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, a town I often visit, tore down a Frank Lloyd Wright hotel in order to build a much less attractive building--IMO--in 1970. Here's a link that shows a rather fuzzy image of the original hotel, some of its background as well as the story and images of Wright's Imperial Hotel in Japan, also--sadly--demolished. 

Still (getting back to our heading here), although it seems as if I may have heard some vague suggestion that Wright had designed a gas station, I hadn't really seen it until one of my favorite blogs posted this video:

via Nag on the Lake

This video is the follow up and has even more interesting information (although the video goes black about halfway through. Not sure what that's about. It's as if the person filming forgot that the camera was on).



Here's a link that shows a number of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings in Oak Park, Chicago and the North Shore (also with a video with a nice historic cross section of his work in the Chicago area):

And of course there's the amazing Taliesin West in Arizona, a building that was Wright's winter home. The link takes you to a tour page,  but it also has some amazing photos (note: the ceilings were originally canvas). Here's a bit more on the history of Taliesin West (with more images).

I think I'm just a bit fascinated with all things buildings and love those home shows and home renovation shows on television even if I'm not fond of doing the actual work. How about you?