Trapp Filling Station

Hartland, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Built in 1922 in Hartland, Wisconsin, the Trapp Filling Station at 252–256 W. Capitol Drive is a Tudor Revival structure that began its life as a single-family home. Situated on a major highway into town, it was converted in the 1920s by Cornelius Trapp into a filling station, though its location proved insufficient for sustained fuel sales. The building subsequently housed a succession of commercial ventures—twice operating as a grocery store under the Elmer Hornburg and Ferdi Dombroski families, and later serving as a handcraft outlet and health food market—while the Trapp family continued to occupy its upper residential quarters. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, it stands as a modest example of adaptive reuse along Wisconsin's early automotive roadways.