Oatman Filling Station

	Oatman Filling Station
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	102 Ferry St.; Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Coordinates	44°47′56″N91°32′06″W / 44.79893°N 91.5349°W Coordinates: 44°47′56″N91°32′06″W / 44.79893°N 91.5349°W
Built	1931
Architectural style	Tudor Revival
NRHP reference #	00001669
Added to NRHP	January 16, 2001

Last updated April 28, 2019

The Oatman Filling Station is located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]

Eau Claire is a city in Chippewa and Eau Claire counties in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located almost entirely in Eau Claire County, for which it is the county seat, the city had a population of 65,883 at the 2010 census, making it the state's ninth-largest city. Eau Claire is the principal city of the Eau Claire, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a part of the Eau Claire-Menomonie Combined Statistical Area.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

History

The filling station was built by Frank Oatman in 1931.^[2] The station is the sole intact gas station in Eau Claire from before 1940. Many gas stations built between 1920 and 1935 were designed to look like houses, because oil companies were starting to build gas stations in neighborhoods and residents were objecting to utilitarian structures that looked like lumber or coal yard buildings. The Oatman Filling Station building incorporated Tudor Revival cottage styling and included office and restroom space. It was affiliated with Texaco for most of its existence, but from the late 1980s until it closed in September 1996, it was a Sinclair Oil affiliate.^[3]

A filling station is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold in the 2010s are gasoline and diesel fuel. A filling station that sells only electric energy is also known as a charging station, while a typical filling station can also be known as a fueling or gas station, gasbar (Canada), gasoline stand or SS (Japan), petrol pump or petrol bunk (India), petrol garage, petrol station, service station, a services, or servo (Australia), or fuel station (Israel).

Texaco, Inc. is an American oil subsidiary of Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owns the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an independent company until its refining operations merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001, at which time most of its station franchises were divested to the Shell Oil Company. It began as the Texas Fuel Company, founded in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas, by Joseph S. Cullinan, Thomas J. Donoghue, Walter Benona Sharp, and Arnold Schlaet upon the discovery of oil at Spindletop.

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References

↑ "Oatman Filling Station". Landmark Hunter.com. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
↑ "Oatman Filling Station". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
↑ "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Oatman Filling Station". 2000-12-06.

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[1] "Oatman Filling Station". Landmark Hunter.com. Retrieved 2012-02-13.

[2] "Oatman Filling Station". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-02-13.

[nom-3] "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Oatman Filling Station". 2000-12-06.