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A current project is in development to build a winged Tydol station as part of the campus of The Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum, located only a few blocks from the original Michigan and Cherry streets location.
Although the station will not be a working facility, the educational concepts pioneered by the design would be readily accessible to visitors of the museum, focusing attention on the impact of the automobile on modern America.Along with the filling station, a greasing station will also be built and will be used for exhibits and for banquets and meetings.Building the filling station is a challenge because Wright never completed final plans for the structure, said Patrick J. Mahoney, a Buffalo architect and Wright expert who will oversee the work with Anthony Puttnam, a onetime Wright apprentice based in Madison, WI.
"Wright's preliminary plans have to be made into something people can walk through," said Mahoney, who will be the lead architect. "I'm confident it can be done."
The Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum has the Wright Stuff!
 The BTPAM joins Buffalo's other Frank Lloyd Wright™ architectural projects that will be constructed over the coming year. Graycliff, the Darwin Martin mausoleum at Forest Lawn, and the Boat House, join the Buffalo Filling Station as the latest Frank Lloyd Wright designed projects in Western New York.
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Museum to Duplicate Filling Station
and Greasing Station
The greasing station in the image above, will be duplicated at the site of the new Buffalo Filling Station by Frank Lloyd Wright™ along with the original Wright™ Filling Station which was to have been constructed at Michigan and Cherry.
Meet the Man Behind The Frank Lloyd Wright Filling Station
Meet Patrick J. Mahoney, a licensed architect and associate in the Amherst, NY-based firm of Lauer-Manguso & Associates. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from the State University at Buffalo. His professional work is extensive in office, medical, and retail buildings.
He was "compelled to become an architect" when in 1979 he experienced Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. His inability to capture the feeling of Fallingwater in two dimensional media led to a goal of experiencing all of Mr. Wright's extant works on a first hand basis. Mr. Mahoney has achieved 95% of this goal at this point in time. These visits enabled Mr. Mahoney to meet many original clients of Frank Lloyd Wright.
In 1997 , Mr. Mahoney was a founding member of the Graycliff Conservancy. The Conservancy was established with the intention of acquiring the circa 1926 estate and returning it to its 1930 appearance, while using it for educational purposes. The Conservancy now owns the Isabelle R. Martin Estate, Graycliff, in Evans , N.Y., 14 miles Southwest of Buffalo, N.Y. He is also the Vice-President of the Conservancy and Chairman of the design committee that oversees the restoration of the estate. Over the past five years he has directed both professional and volunteer forces in the removal of non original alterations to the estate. He served as Project Architect for the recently completed on-site visitor center project.
He has extensively photographed the estate as well as many extant Frank Lloyd Wright designed structures. He published an article entitled "Unbuilt Wright" in the Spring 1999 issue of Western New York Heritage Magazine documenting the extensive work of Frank Lloyd Wright designed but not built.
In the early 1980s, Mr. Mahoney began to collect historic postcards of Western New York. Since that time the collection has grown to include several other specialty areas including naval architecture, buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, buildings by Louis Sullivan, and buildings by H. H. Richardson.
Mr. Mahoney's recent architectural work includes the renovated Village Shopping Center in East Aurora, N.Y., a design based upon a structure of Frank Lloyd Wright's demolished in 1929.
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