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Marathon Oil Service Station

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Built
  
1928 (1928)

Opened
  
1928

Added to NRHP
  
10 May 2001

NRHP Reference #
  
01000484

Area
  
4,000 m²

Marathon Oil Service Station

Location
  
E. Second and Spring St., Fordyce, Arkansas

Architectural style
  
Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, plain-traditional

Part of
  
Fordyce Commercial Historic District (#92000608)

MPS
  
Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS

The Marathon Oil Service Station is a historic automotive service facility at the southeast corner of East 2nd and Spring Streets in downtown Fordyce, Arkansas. It is a single story building constructed out of red and buff brick, with an auto canopy covered in a tile roof. The main facade of the building has a parapet which conceals a barrel roof. The building is divided into two functional bays, an office to the left and a garage bay to the right. The canopy extends in front of the left bay, and is supported by a single brick column, in which there is an original Marathon Oil logo. The building is a well-preserved example of a 1920s service station.

The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

References

Marathon Oil Service Station Wikipedia