1925 Cottage Style Gas Station

Rt 66 at the Hubble Drive / Banning Rd. Roundabout. Marshfield, MO
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The little station in this 2012 photo spent about 100 years by the side of the road that became Route 66 in Niangua, MO. (Photos are in Niangua location).

Then in 2024 it picked itself up and wandered down the road a couple miles to this spot in Marshfield. Okay, it had some help from its owner, Gary Dill, who donated it, and the kind folks at the Webster County Route 66 Initiative who helped it get up on the trailer for the ride to town, but hey, it's a hundred years old, at that age we might all need a little help getting around! The good news is that it's going to be easy to find at its new location.

It will be right on Route 66 in Marshfield, just east of the roundabout at Hubble Drive and Banning.

It just got there at the end of September 2025, so it might need a little time to get all settled in.

The 1925 cottage style gas station was just a couple hundred feet east of the Niangua River bridge. The little station was kind of hiding in the trees, so you needed to be looking for it. The windows on either side of the door on the front had been boarded up. There was a stone chimney on the west side, not sure if that made the move.

At first glance most people may have missed the fact that the station sat on the edge of a steep slope down to a creek. It's steep enough that there was a door of sorts on the east end of the lower level. On the main level and gables there are windows on both ends of the station.

Just west of its old location the station there's a small concrete bridge crossing the little creek.

GPS: 37.371581, -92.864966 (old location)

Photo(s): 2012, 2018