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15 Berlin Street, Berganti's Garage

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Filling stations in the 1920s were small, attractive buildings with a few pumps out front and offering other services to the motoring public. One such early facility was Andrew Berganti’s Socony station built in 1926 at 15 Berlin Street near the…

Fig. 31. Socony Filling Station, c. 1937.

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This Socony filling station was one of Montpelier's first modern service stations, employing a canopy over the gas pumps?an architectural concept that became the standard throughout the area. Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) was a common…