Little Chief Service Station | |
Location: | 344 20th Street W |
Location Town: | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
Location Country: | Canada |
Client: | Texaco |
Construction Start Date: | 1929 |
Completion Date: | 1929 |
Style: | Spanish Colonial |
The Little Chief Service Station (built in 1929) is a designated Municipal Heritage Property located in the Riversdale, neighborhood of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was originally built as a gas service station for Texaco Oil Company of Canada. Cars and farm vehicles were often serviced at the station while owners shopped in the Riversdale area.[1] The restored building design makes use of white stucco walls, rounded roof tiles, decorative brick, heavy tiled cornices, roof parapets, iron windows and copper gutters.[2]
After renovations, the Saskatoon Police Service started using the building as a community policing station on April 29, 2003.[3] [4] In 2011 closing the community policing station was identified as a cost-saving measure, with a focus on having police officers on patrols in the neighborhood.[5] [6] The Riversdale Business Improvement District has been located there since May 2008.