It was located in the community of Una which used to be about seven miles away from the city limits of Nashville, but has been absorbed into the growing city.[2]
It is a one-story 35 by 40 feet (11 m × 12 m) building which is significant architecturally as "a vernacular adaption of a gas
station form known as the 'house with bays,' a building type defined by historical geographer John Jakle in his 1975 study of
gasoline stations. Jakle's article, "The American Gasoline Station, 1920 to 1970," created a typology for gasoline station
identification and analysis that has been generally accepted by geographers, historians, and preservationists ever since."[2]