Gilbane's Service Center Building

United States historic place


Gilbane's Service Center Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Gilbane's Service Center Building
41°52′9″N 71°23′21″W / 41.86917°N 71.38917°W / 41.86917; -71.38917
Built	1931
Architect	Philip Franklin Eddy
Architectural style	Art Deco
MPS	Pawtucket MRA
NRHP reference No.	83003827 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 18, 1983

Gilbane's Service Center Building is an historic automotive service station at 175-191 Pawtucket Avenue in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It is an L-shaped structure, built of concrete blocks and finished in stucco. Its most prominent feature is a whimsical Art Deco tower, built up from one of the corners nearest the street in five stepped tiers. Details from the tower are repeated in the decoration of the roofline above the building's service bays. This building was built c. 1931, and is a second-phase automotive service station, one which offered repair services as well as fuel, and is one of the finest surviving examples of the form in the state.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "Historic Resources of Pawtucket (PDF pages 125-126)" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-11-15.