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You didn't wind up with that, did you? I was interested but dismantling and transportation would have been cost prohibitive.

First, Butler made many things, tankers, gas pumps, complete stations, and building like the one above. This is not a Standard pre-fab building, it a Butler made filling station building, it just appears that Standard was the last one to use it.

Second, the Standard sign may be worth more than the building. And what is inside the building? There may be something inside it that may be worth more than the building.

Third, as Stu mentionded above, the cost of dismantling and moving may be so much, that maybe they should be paying you just to get it off the property. You could dismantle this building, but you would have to mark every part, take a ton of pictures, just to be able to put it back together. Here is a picture from my website that show a similiar building that was moved without taking it apart: http://petrolianacollectibles.com/steve_gold.htm

This type of building is something that should be donated to the local historical society, put in a historical place, restored, have gas pumps put outside, and be available for everyone to see what a filling station looked like back in the 1920s.

The best example of this is the historical park that Dayton, Ohio has. They devoted a park to the history of Dayton. Every day, school buses of children come to the park to see the history. Included in the park are:
The original building (they moved it to the park) where the Wright brothers had their bicycle shop and where they conceived their idea for the first airplane.
An original building housing at least one Dayton locomotive.
An original dealership, with cars, for the Stoddard-Dayton automobile.
An original Sunoco (I may be wrong about the brand) building, a much nicer than one shown above, and with two American (made in Dayton) visible gas pumps out front.

This is the greatest display of industrial history I have ever seen.

The Museum of Transportation, here in St. Louis County, has a porcelain, 1950s style, Phillips 66 station, replaced to their property. The big kicker is that it once stood on Rt. 66 going out of St. Louis. I donated one gas pump for it yeasrs ago and a ton of Phillips 66 items (air, gas & oil filters, etc.) for the inside of the building.

I am sure, somewhere in my 41 file drawers of service station literature I have something on this building. I need a commitment to purchase it before I start looking for it.

Jack Sim