Casey's Diner
| Casey's Diner | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| Historic District Contributing Property | |||
 Casey's Diner in 2002 |
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| location | Natick , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 17 '8.7 " N , 71 ° 20' 40" W | ||
| Built | 1922 | ||
| architect | Worcester Lunch Car Company | ||
| Architectural style | Barrel Roof Diner | ||
| NRHP number | 99001122 | ||
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| The NRHP added | September 22, 1999 | ||
| Declared as CP | December 16, 1977 | ||
The Casey's Diner is a 1922-built Diner in Natick in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . It is one of the so-called "ten stoolers", as it has exactly ten bar stools, and was entered into the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on September 22, 1999 as part of the Multiple Property Submission Diners of Massachusetts MPS . As early as December 16, 1977, the diner was recognized as a Contributing Property of the Natick Center Historic District .
description
The Casey's Diner is a well preserved example of a restaurant cars of the early 1920s, that of the Worcester Lunch Car Company with a typical barrel roof ( English barrel roof ) was built. It is located in the city center near the Natick Center MBTA station , where the Framingham / Worcester Line stops.
The diner, which originally ran on its own wheels, was operated mainly stationary as early as the late 1920s and early 1930s and stood on Washington Street until 1977, where it was registered as part of the Natick Center Historic District in the NRHP. In the same year it was moved to its current position on South Avenue, for which purpose new wheels were fitted. Today the diner stands on a concrete foundation outside the boundaries of the Historic District, but is still part of it.
The diner consists of a wooden frame and has a barrel roof made of metal. The outer walls are clad with hot-dip galvanized steel that is painted yellow. The centrally arranged in the roof clerestory windows are unusual for a dinner of this size. In the course of moving the diner to the new location, a one-story extension was added to the rear. The original entrances on the front and west side have been preserved; the main entrance is covered with a barrel roof in the Colonial Revival style from the 1920s. A window on the east side was enlarged to serve walk-in customers. Unlike most diners, there are no signs or information boards.
Inside, Casey's is the typical Worcester lunch car with just a few modern modifications. The original furnishings include the bar and ten stools made of oak, the foot bar made of brass, a board mounted along the front for standing room, the barrel roof and the flooring made of hexagonal tiles.
Historical meaning
Casey's Diner is one of the oldest still operating diners in Massachusetts and, as a so-called "Ten-Stooler", is a rarity in the state and unique in Natick. The Worcester Lunch Car Company was the largest manufacturer of diners in Massachusetts prior to World War II .
In the early 1920s, Frederick A. Casey, after whose family the diner is named to this day, began his career in the diner business with a so-called lunch wagon . The car, built in 1885 with four bar stools, belonged to George and Ida Brooks, who first ran it as Brooks' Café and later as Park Café . Casey worked on this car as a clerk for seventeen years before buying it in 1921, renaming it and having the manufacturer repair and partially convert it.
In 1927 Casey sold the car to a gypsy family and bought the former Mulligan's Diner in Framingham , which he had brought to Natick and placed on Washington Street across from the public library. At the time of its manufacture, the diner was the smallest model of the Worcester Lunch Car Company, measuring around 6 mx 3 m. After moving to the current position in 1977, a parking lot was built there.
Frederick Casey ran his diner for more than 25 years and retired in the mid-1950s. In 1958 his son John commissioned the manufacturer to partially renovate the interior, and today the diner is run by the third generation of the family. In 1974 it was the main subject of a painting by John Baeder , who is best known today for his diner portraits.
See also
literature
- Kathleen Kelly Broomer, Betsy Friedberg: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. (PDF) National Park Service , July 1999, accessed on July 18, 2016 (English, accessible via the "NR" button).
- Richard Gutman: American diner then and now . Harper Perennial, New York 1993, ISBN 978-0-06-096956-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved November 2, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 5.
- ↑ a b c cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 6.
- ↑ cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 7.
- ↑ John Baeder: Diners . Abrams, New York 1995, ISBN 978-0-8109-2611-0 .