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Windmill Quaker State
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	800 Murdoch Ave., Parkersburg, West Virginia
Coordinates	39°16′11″N 81°33′31″W / 39.26972°N 81.55861°W / 39.26972; -81.55861
Area	less than one acre
Built	1928
Architect	Glen Reynolds; George Nichols
MPS	Downtown Parkersburg MRA
NRHP reference No.	82001795
Added to NRHP	October 8, 1982

Windmill Quaker State is a historic service station located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1928 by the Quaker State Corporation, and is an example of an architectural folly. It is a roughcast stucco building with a windmill atop the gable roof.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

See also

• Cambern Dutch Shop Windmill: on the NRHP in Washington (state)
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wood County, West Virginia

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Eliza Smith, Christina Mann (December 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Windmill Quaker State" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-09-10.

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