1920, Lang and Witchell. 2130 Commerce St.
This unusual variation on the typical urban gas station with a corner drive-through takes advantage of the collision of Dallas’s street grids, creating a narrow wedge shape, a flatiron, with wide access arches along two street fronts. Low segmental arches on the ground floor with paneled lintels, by the Atlanta Terra Cotta Company, convey a Tudor character, while the shawl-like features in the buff brick second-floor offices under the cornice may be Prairie Style inspired. A Magnolia building (AO15) in Amarillo has identical second-floor details, including the cornice (the first floor has been changed). Although the buildings are credited to different architects, the style may have been a company standard.