Wright designed gas station opens at Buffalo museum
Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum unveiled Frank Lloyd Wright 1927 gas station inside a 40,000 square foot addition. Two 45 foot copper totems rise under a copper cantilevered roof as Wright imagined gravity fed tanks and fireplaces. Wright called it an ornament to the pavement.
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Wright’s 1929 Cord Cabriolet on loan to museum
Buffalo area notes highlight Dottie Gallagher Cohen remarks on economic development. Wright’s 1929 L-29 Cord Cabriolet is loaned from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn Indiana. The filling station marks Wright’s third Buffalo commission outside his lifetime designs. Blue Sky Mausoleum opened in Forest Lawn Cemetery in 2004 and Fontana Boathouse opened in 2007.
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