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Windmill Quaker State

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
82001795

Added to NRHP
  
8 October 1982

Built
  
1928

Opened
  
1928

Windmill Quaker State

Location
  
800 Murdoch Ave., Parkersburg, West Virginia

Architect
  
Glen Reynolds; George Nichols

MPS
  
Downtown Parkersburg MRA

Windmill Quaker State is a historic service station located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1928 by the Quaker State Corporation, and is an example of an architectural folly. It is a roughcast stucco building with a windmill atop the gable roof.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Windmill Quaker State Wikipedia