Tramway Gas Station

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Tramway Gas Station
Palm Springs Visitor Center Sideview-(revised)2.jpg
Palm Springs Visitor Center, 2014
Location2901 North Palm Canyon
Palm Springs, California
United States
Coordinates 33°51′30″N116°33′29″W / 33.8584°N 116.5581°W / 33.8584; -116.5581
Built1965 (1965)
Architect
Architectural style Desert modern
NRHP reference No. 15000645
Added to NRHPSeptember 28, 2015

The Tramway Gas Station is a landmark former Enco service station in Palm Springs, California, United States, so named because of its location at the foot of Tramway Road, the lone road leading to the base of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. It was intended to be the first Palm Springs building visitors saw when approaching the city from the north via California State Route 111.

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The building, with its distinctive, cantilevered, wedge-shaped canopy (referred to as a hyperbolic paraboloid on a historic marker mounted on the building) was built in 1965 and designed by Albert Frey and Robson C. Chambers. It is considered to be a prime example of modernist architecture.

The station had closed by the mid-1990s, and its fate was in doubt until its 2000 purchase by a private interest, who erected a wall around the property and converted it into an art gallery. Since 2003 it has been operated by the Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism as the Palm Springs Visitor Center. [1] [2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. [3]

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Derelict Tramway Gas Station in 1997 before being converted into a sculpture gallery Palm Springs Tramway Gas Station.jpg
Derelict Tramway Gas Station in 1997 before being converted into a sculpture gallery

References

  1. ↑ Lotter, Jane (2003-10-16). "Last Chance for Gas". Preservation . National Trust for Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  2. ↑ "About Palm Springs". Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  3. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places Listing" (PDF). National Park Service. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
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