Lafayette, Indiana - Red Crown Mini-Museum
- Address:
- 605 South Street, Lafayette, IN [Show Map]
- Directions:
- I-65 exit 172. West on Hwy 26 for 3.5 miles. Left on 6th St. One block south, on the southeast corner of 6th and South Sts.
- Admission:
- Free
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Lafayette, Indiana - Red Crown Mini-Museum The Red Crown Mini-Museum is a 1930s-era Standard Oil
filling station that was restored in 1991 and turned into a "walk-by"
museum by local businessman Don Stein. It features a couple of
restored antique cars in the auto bays, a 1931 Ford Model B wrecker in
the parking lot, and miscellaneous gas-station memorabilia inside.
Check the mailbox on the front of the building. There are supposed to be picture postcards and information sheets in there, but it was empty when I visited. [Brady Smith, 04/29/2002]
[RA: The original building was constructed in 1927-28 by Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The Red Crown was threatened with destruction in the 1980s. In 1991, Stein restored the building at no cost to the public. A chronological history of the Red Crown Mini-Museum notes that over 1,000 man hours were spent hand-removing 41 layers of paint from the inside glazed brick walls. The "fallen roof was removed and replaced with red tile imported from Chillicothe, Ohio, where it had been in storage by Standard Oil for over 50 years."]Nearby Offbeat Places
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