Trapp Filling Station

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Trapp Filling Station
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Location252--256 W. Capitol Dr., Hartland, Wisconsin
Coordinates 43°06′11″N88°21′03″W / 43.10306°N 88.35083°W / 43.10306; -88.35083 (Trapp Filling Station)
Arealess than one acre
Built1922
Architectural style Tudor Revival
MPS Hartland MRA
NRHP reference No. 86003419 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 8, 1986

The Trapp Filling Station, at 252-256 W. Capitol Drive in Hartland, Wisconsin, was built in 1922. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1] [2]

Originally, the structure was built and used as a house. It was located on the major highway into Hartland, though, and in the 1920s Cornelius Trapp began to operate it as a filling station. Apparently "its location was obviously not prominent enough to succeed in sales. The site was soon used by others, twice as a grocery store by the Elmer Hornburg family and the Ferdi Dombroski family. More recently it has seen use as a handcraft outlet store and a health food market. Members of the Trapp family remained residents of the upper residential areas even when changing commercial agents operated out of the lower area." [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "Trapp Filling Station". Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places. January 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
  3. Elizabeth Miller; John Vogel (1985). "Intensive Survey Inventory: Trapp Filling Station". National Park Service . Retrieved July 19, 2018. With accompanying photo from 1985