It’s not every day that you feel the desire to visit a gas station, but in Cloquet there’s a unique piece of history that’s hiding in plain sight that you’ll want to see. With the hopes of one day designing his own city, a small piece of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural master plan came to be with the creation of long-loved roadside attraction. If you’ve yet to explore this spot for yourself, let’s explain why exactly it is such a special place.

Roughly a half-hour west of Duluth, the city of Cloquet is home to a historic gas station.
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More appealing than you might originally assume it to be, the R. W. Lindholm Service Station was built in 1958 and is still open to this very day.
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Frank Lloyd Wright originally designed the gas station in 1927. It was intended for Buffalo, New York, but 30 years later, he found the opportunity to bring it to life.
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After already designing a house for R. W. Lindholm in Cloquet, Wright used his power of persuasion to convince the man to build the gas station in town.
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Opening up not long before Wright's death in 1959, the gas station has many details that any lover of architecture will be able to appreciate, like its futuristic observation deck.
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Owned and operated today by R. W. Lindholm's grandson, people from all over still continue to visit this roadside attraction over 50 years later.
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How to get here: 202 Cloquet Avenue Cloquet, MN 55720

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