Windmill Quaker State is a historic service station located at Parkersburg,

Wood County, West Virginia Wood County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 84,296, making it West Virginia's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Parkersburg. The county was formed in 1798 from the west ...

. It was built in 1928 by the Quaker State Corporation, and is an example of an architectural

folly In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings. Eighteenth-cent ...

. It is a roughcast stucco building with a

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atop the gable roof. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1982.

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Buildings and structures in Parkersburg, West Virginia Transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Folly buildings on the National Register of Historic Places Commercial buildings completed in 1928 National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, West Virginia Gas stations on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia 1928 establishments in West Virginia Shell plc buildings and structures Windmills on the National Register of Historic Places {{WoodCountyWV-NRHP-stub

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