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| Street View, Mar 2026 |
Paul Robinson commented on a post:
In the late 1980s, my boss renovated a similar STANDARD station in Lafayette, Indiana. [Similar to the Standard Station in Vienna, IL.] It has been featured here before, I think. The station became THE RED CROWN MINI MUSEUM. It featured my boss's collection of STANDARD OIL memorabilia and antique automobiles. The museum closed after his death, but the building still stands and is used by the local public library that owns the property today.
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| RoadsideAmerica "The Red Crown Mini-Museum is a 1930s-era Standard Oil filling station that was restored in 1991 and turned into a "walk-by" museum by local businessman Don Stein. It features a couple of restored antique cars in the auto bays, a 1931 Ford Model B wrecker in the parking lot, and miscellaneous gas-station memorabilia inside." "The original building was constructed in 1927-28 by Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The Red Crown was threatened with destruction in the 1980s. In 1991, Stein restored the building at no cost to the public. A chronological history of the Red Crown Mini-Museum notes that over 1,000 man hours were spent hand-removing 41 layers of paint from the inside glazed brick walls. The 'fallen roof was removed and replaced with red tile imported from Chillicothe, Ohio, where it had been in storage by Standard Oil for over 50 years.'" |
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| Sangyeon Woo, Jul 2016 |
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