Buffalo News - 20-April 2010
Plans for Wright Designed Gas Station Gets a Boost

Plans to build a re-creation of a gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright took a leap forward today when a city panel OK'd construction of a huge atrium that will enclose the structure.

Planning Board members used words like "fabulous" and "great" to describe the second and largest phase of an expansion of the Buffalo Transportation/Pierce-Arrow Museum. The board approved plans by businessman James T. Sandoro to build a 47-foot-high glass-and-steel atrium on the 200-block of Michigan Avenue near Seneca Street. The Atrium will enclose the replica of Wright's filling station. Read article

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See a 3D video flyby of the new Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum with the outdoor version of the FLW Filling Station. The current plans has the FLW Filling Station enclosed in a glass atrium. courtesy of Lauer-Manguso Assoc, the architects for the new BTPAM
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