The R.W. Lindholm Service Station (currently known as Best Service) in Cloquet, MN was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The concept of the design was intended to fit into Wright's larger Broadacre City project, a Utopian vision of a decentralized American landscape. This gas station remains the only one ever designed by Wright.

Constructed in 1956 (the same year as the Guggenheim Museum), the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1985. Today, it is on the market for sale.

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On October 4, 2011, Jeff Magnum made an impromptu appearance at the Occupy Wall Street protest at Zuccotti Park, playing several Neutral Milk Hotel songs for a cheering and singing audience.

The park is privately owned by Brookfield Properties and is named after company chairman, John Zuccotti. The park used to be named Liberty Plaza Park.

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In 1949, Frieda and Henry J. Neils approached Frank Lloyd Wright about building a new home adjacent to their property overlooking Cedar Lake in Minneapolis. Henry Neils was a stone and architectural materials supplier, and insisted on marble walls in the interior and aluminum window frames (which was a departure from Wright's usual style).

The house was designed in Wright's later Usonian style, with a stated goal of "affordable, beautiful housing for a democratic America." Accordingly, the house is separated into "quiet" and "active" areas.

The property is currently privately owned by heirs to the Neils family.

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In June 1932, Nancy Willey sent a letter to Frank Lloyd Wright, asking him to provide the Willey family with a "creation of art" for a budget of about $8,000. Wright responded with a design he dubbed "Gardenwall." Built in 1934, the house originally had panoramic views of the Mississippi River (before the construction of I-94).

Constructed primary of red brick and cypress wood, the Willey House (as it is more commonly known) features a departure in the compartmentalized designs of Wright's earlier work. Mrs. Willey needed a clear view from the kitchen to the rest of the home to watch the children.

The house can be viewed as a bridge between Wright's earlier Prairie School work to his later Usonian styles.

The house is currently privately owned, and the views from the street are partially obstructed.

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The 1996 album On Avery Island by the band Neutral Milk Hotel refers to this location. Avery Island is the home of the McIlhenny Company headquarters (manufacturers of Tabasco sauce). Jeff Mangum and several members of the Elephant 6 collective went to high school in Ruston, Louisiana.

Avery Island is an example of a salt dome island, a type of structural dome formed when a thick bed of evaporite minerals (mainly salt, or halite) found at depth intrudes vertically into surrounding rock strata, forming a diapir (a type of intrusion). Even though this island is no longer surrounded by ocean, it is currently surrounded by bayou...so now you know.

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