Wild Lily/White Rose Service Station

Location: 385 Main St.

Built in 1930 as a White Rose service station, it was once one of Wolfville’s nine gas stations. Today, there are none! The station closed in 1960, but this building as has seen many businesses come and go over the years.

Art Moderne, is the style in which this building was built. Notice its flat roof, plain facade and round corners. The name of the builder is unrecorded.

Fun Fact: Gasoline was considered a useless by-product in the process of producing kerosene.

Photos:

1. The building, as of July 2023
2. Lion’s Day, circa 1956