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Cedarburg Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Alexander C. Eschweiler, a well-known architect in Milwaukee, designed this exotic station for the Wadhams Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee in 1926.
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Kewaunee Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: This Tudor Revival-style Wadhams Service Station at 302 Ellis Street opened in 1931. The Kewaunee Enterprise proclaimed it a "very fine improvement in the ...
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West Allis Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Built in 1927, this small Wadhams station, located at 1647 South Seventy-sixth Street, is one of a handful of the company's signature pagoda stations still...
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Waterford-Wadhams Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Fred Schmidt installed a gas pump outside his family's blacksmith business in 1911. At 28407 North Lake Drive, the station's location was prime for automob...
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Wild Rose Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Herman Hanson built this small rectangular brick station before the spring of 1928. Motorists would have known from the bright red tile roof that this litt...

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