A number of auto dealership, auto service, and auto repair shop buildings are notable. A number of these are listed on historic registers, including some in the United States whose notability is documented by their listing the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Many auto dealership showroom buildings also include auto servicing areas. This list is intended to include all notable showroom buildings, with or without associated auto service or auto repair facilities, and to include independent auto service or repair facilities.
Buildings which are primarily filling stations and only secondarily include an auto service bay are covered in List of historic filling stations, instead. as These include places known as "service stations" in the U.S.
Malta
Building ImageDatesLocationCity Description Muscats Motors 1945 built2012 scheduled Rue D'Argens Gżira Streamline Moderne style
Turkey One of the biggest collections of showrooms of any kind is a car showroom complex in Istanbul called Autopia Europia.World Buildings Directory, Autopia Europia .Mibz.com, Autopia Europia, The World’s Biggest Car Dealership, Will Have A Circuit On The Roof .
United Arab Emirates One of the world's largest showrooms of any kind is the BMW showroom in Abu Dhabi.Horatiu Boeriu, BMW opens largest showroom worldwide in Abu Dhabi, BMW blog, 2012.Carscoops, World's Largest BMW Showroom Opens in Abu Dhabi, Best Selling Model in the M.E. is the 7-Series, 2012. Another notable showroom in UAE is designed by Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott. Lamborghini unveiled its largest showroom in the world, a 30,000 sq. ft facility in Dubai.
United States
Building ImageDatesLocationCity, State Description 1901 McGee Street Automotive Service Building 1912 built2009 NRHP-listed 1901-1907 McGee St. Kansas City, Missouri Early Commercial style ABC Auto Sales and Investment Company Building 1927 built2012 NRHP-listed 3509-27 Page Blvd. St. Louis, Missouri Al's Motors 1948 built2003 NRHP-listed 3910 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, Virginia America's Packard Museum 1917 built Dayton, Ohio Originally a Packard dealership, now an automotive museum.Atlantic Motor Company1919 built2005 NRHP-listed 1840 W. Broad St. Richmond, Virginia Classical Revival-style auto showroom building designed by Albert F. Huntt and Bascom J. Rowlett. Auto Rest Garage 1917 built1996 NRHP-listed 925–935 SW 10th Avenue Portland, Oregon Early Commercial-style building, designed by Jacobberger & Smith to serve as a showroom for Stutz and Columbia automobiles. Berwyn Route 66 Museum 7003 W. Ogden Avenue Berwyn, Illinois In a former Anderson Ford dealership building, repurposed in 2012. Blacksburg Motor Company, Inc. 1924 built2008 NRHP-listed 400 S. Main St. Blacksburg, Virginia Blankinship Motor Company Building 1940 built2001 NRHP-listed 120 E. Cypress St.Warren, ArkansasModerne Bohn Motor Company Automobile Dealership 1925 built2011 NRHP-listed 2700 S. Broad New Orleans, Louisiana Italianate building designed by architect Emile Weil Buick Automobile Company Building 1907 built2004 NRHP-listed 216 Admiral Blvd. Kansas City, Missouri Cadillac Automobile Company Building 1919 built2005 NRHP-listed 3224 Locust St. St. Louis, Missouri Casa de cadillac 1949 14401 Ventura Boulevard Sherman Oaks, California Googie architecture building used by Cadillac-Buick-GMC dealership firm since 1949Cass Motor Sales 1928 built1986 NRHP-listed 5800 Cass Avenue Detroit, Michigan Designed by Charles N. Agree in Art Deco styleClaremore Auto Dealership1930 built1995 NRHP-listed625 W. Will Rogers Blvd.Claremore, Oklahoma On U.S. Route 66. Auto dealership, built in Art Deco style, appears to have been demolished. Clemens Automobile Company Building 1916 built2009 NRHP-listed 200 10th St. Des Moines, Iowa Colman Automotive Building 1915-16 built2013 NRHP-listed 401 E. Pine St. Seattle, Washington Car dealership for Stanley Steamer and other brands. Designed by Seattle architects Webster & Ford.H Street Playhouse1928 built2004 NRHP-listed 1365 H Street, N.E.Washington, D.C. Romanesque Revival-styled. Served as auto sales dealership building, is now a theatre. Howard Motor Company Building 1927 built1996 NRHP-listed 1285 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CaliforniaHupmobile Building 1917 built2014 NRHP-listed 2523 Farnam Street Omaha, Nebraska Auto dealership and service center. Jennings Ford Automobile Dealership 1919 built2006 NRHP-listed 431 S. Fourth St. Springfield, Illinois Jones Motor Company 1939 built1993 NRHP-listed 3222 Central Avenue SE Albuquerque, New Mexico Kindel Building 1928 built1996 NRHP-listed 1095 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, California Italian Renaissance Revival-style. Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile Company Showroom 1909 built2002 NRHP-listed 1737 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois Part of Chicago's Motor Row Packard Motor Car Showroom and Storage Facility 1927 built2006 NRHP-listed 1325 Main St. Buffalo, New York Designed by Albert Kahn in Classical Revival style Packard Motor Corporation Building 1911 built1980 NRHP-listed 317–321 N. Broad St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Chicago-style skyscraper designed by Albert Kahn Pence Automobile Company Building 1909 built2007 NRHP-listed 800 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis, Minnesota Classical Revival Stuber–Stone Building 1916 built1996 NRHP-listed 4221–4229 Cass Avenue Detroit, Michigan Studebaker Building 1925 built1985 NRHP-listed St. Petersburg, Florida Washington Talking Book & Braille Library 2021 Ninth Avenue (at corner of Lenora Street) Seattle, Washington Streamline Moderne-style, designed by Naramore, Bain, Brady, and Johanson. Formerly a Dodge dealership, renovated in 1997 to become a library. Willys-Overland Building 1917 built1999 NRHP-listed 2300 Locust St. St. Louis, Missouri Commercial Classical Revival Young Brothers Chevrolet Garage 1912 built1994 NRHP-listed 201 Pennsylvania St. Chinook, Montana Mission/Spanish Revival in style. Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum 100 East Cross StreetYpsilanti, Michigan Former Dodge dealership building.
Numerous more auto showroom buildings are listed on the National Register as contributing buildings in historic districts, including some within Chicago's Motor Row District.
Under construction/To be added: more items from "wt:NRHP#Gas station drive" perhaps a few from List of historic filling stations
See also List of historic filling stations, including some with service bays / garages / repair shops, and many known as "service stations".
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