Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1696 Colonial Filling Station

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1696

 

Today’s illustration from the July, 1926, issue of The Architectural Forum shows a small filling station (construction completed in 1924) located at the corner of Washington Street and Melville Avenue.  The Colonial Filling stations were operated as a division of Beacon Oil.

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