National and State Register

Reimer-Smith Oil Station

Phillips County

The 1927 Reimer-Smith Oil Station is an excellent intact example of a rapidly disappearing form of the 1920s era "house with canopy"type of gas station.  The station is also an important example of the use of pressed metal as an interior and exterior wall treatment.

A black and white photo of the station with hipped roof and two pumps with square white pillars on either side and building behind.

Reimer-Smith Oil Station (2002 photograph.)

The Reimer-Oil Station is one of the best surviving examples of the use of pressed metal in early 20th century Colorado.  Members of the Phillips County Historical Society rescued the building from demolition in 1998 by moving it to the grounds of their museum.