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Canute Service Station

Route 66 at Main St., Canute, OK
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The Canute Service Station is located on the southwest corner of Main Street and Highway 66 about a block west of the Cotton Boll Motel sign. I like the Deco Pueblo style, especially the details in the parapet and the strong character line running around the building near the top, that does a nice job of tying the whole place together. Also called the Sinclair Castle Style the Rossi Building, a 1929 former Sinclair station in Tulsa is another example on Route 66.

The building was constructed phases. The far right section of the building, the part with the flat topped parapet, was built in 1936 as a roadhouse/cafe and dance hall. The rest of the building was added in 1939 to accommodate a gas station and garage. That work also added the canopy over the gas pumps. The flat top parapet on the roadhouse section was added at the same time as the gas station to make it fit better with the Deco Pueblo design of the station.

The east side of the building held the garage doors for the service bays, there's one larger door and one smaller garage door now, and it looks like there was a third small garage door that has been closed off. The same style parapet runs along this side which really enhances the look of the building.

By 2015 this sign hanging above the west section of the building had become almost unreadable, but said Fred's Garage followed by a phone number unreadable number in a 1991 photo.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Photo(s): 2012 - 2015