Preservation at its best

December 27, 2009 in Architecture with 2 Comments

Public bathrooms in Bowling Green, KY are housed in a beautifully restored vintage Standard Oil filling station. How cool is that?

 

Photo courtesy of Dorian Walker
 

Before the restoration
 

Circa 1921

Who: Dorian Walker, John Atkerson, Miranda Clements, Heather Rogers, Carroll Hildreth
What: Rest stop with public bathrooms
Where: Bowling Green, Kentucky
When: May 2009
How: Transforming a vintage gas station into public bathrooms

via Preservation Magazine
 

2 Responses to “Preservation at its best”

  1. kuri December 27, 2009 at 10:45 am #

    Those are cool bathrooms! Lovely idea.

  2. catkin and teasel December 27, 2009 at 11:55 pm #

    what a fantastic idea. i love seeing old buildings being re-used for another purpose.

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