The Magnolia Company Filling Station is a historic automotive service station building located at 492 West Lafayette Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is a small, single-story, white hip-roofed brick building with a portico supported by brick piers that extends over the area where the fuel pumps were originally located. The building has a center entrance, with a single sash window to the left and a large window (formerly a doorway) to the right.
Built in 1925, it is one of the region's oldest surviving gas stations. According to its National Register of Historic Places nomination in 1978, it was the only station then known to have been built by the Magnolia Company and still surviving. The building was constructed by Earl Bird at a cost of approximately $3,600 and is considered one of the earliest and best-maintained examples of the drive-in station type form, notable for being the first of its kind built of fireproof material.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1978, under reference number 78000636. It is significant for its contributions to the themes of Commerce and Architecture, reflecting the historical context of the early 20th century.
At least two other filling stations built by or for the company have also survived. A similarly named filling station in Kingsland, Arkansas, was listed on the National Register in 2019 as the Magnolia Petroleum Company Filling Station. It was built to a Magnolia Petroleum Company design that included elements of Craftsman and Tudor Revival architecture, a design that was also used for at least one other filling station in North Little Rock, which was destroyed after a fire in 2018.
