Soulsby Service Station

	Soulsby Service Station
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	710 West First Street, Mount Olive, Illinois
Area	less than one acre
Built	1926
Architect	Soulsby, Henry
Architectural style	House and Canopy Gas Station
MPS	Route 66 through Illinois MPS
NRHP reference No.	04000420
Added to NRHP	May 06, 2004

The Soulsby Service Station is a historic service station in Mount Olive, Illinois. The station is located along historic U.S. Route 66 and is the oldest usable service station on the highway in Illinois. It serves as an example of the house and canopy gas station design.

Henry Soulsby built the station in 1926 after an injury forced him to leave the mining industry^[2] and operated it along with his children Russell and Ola Soulsby. His son Russell, a World War II naval communications technician, operated a radio and TV repair business out of the station as Interstate 55 diverted highway traffic away from the site in the late 1950s.

The station stopped pumping gas in 1991^[3] and closed in 1993; plans currently exist to reopen it as a museum.^[4]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "Soulsby Service Station--Route 66: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary". US National Park Service.
^ Kye Miller (2009). "Route 66: History, Myth and Memory". Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Soulsby Service Station" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] "Soulsby Service Station--Route 66: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary". US National Park Service.

[3] Kye Miller (2009). "Route 66: History, Myth and Memory". Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

[4] "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Soulsby Service Station" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

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