Corner lunch
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The corner lunch in 2008 |
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| location | Worcester , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 15 '10.1 " N , 71 ° 48' 19.7" W | ||
| Built | circa 1955 | ||
| architect | DeRaffele Diners / Musi Dining Car Company | ||
| Architectural style | Stainless steel diner | ||
| NRHP number | 00001286 | ||
| The NRHP added | November 15, 2000 | ||
The Corner Lunch is allegedly built 1955 Diner in Worcester in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . It is one of the so-called "stainless steel dinners", as it consists largely of stainless steel, and was entered into the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on November 15, 2000 as part of the Multiple Property Submission Diners of Massachusetts MPS registered.
description
Corner Lunch is the best-preserved, multi-section diner in Worcester and has the largest seating capacity of any diner in town. It's architecturally valuable as it was built by DeRaffele Diners in New Rochelle in the 1950s and remodeled by Carteret's Musi Dining Car Company in 1968 after being moved to Worcester.
The diner is in a mixed-use area on a street corner just south of Worcester's business center. It is a multi individual sections steel frame -construction, with stainless steel ( English stainless steel is covered) and horizontal and vertical decorations of green email has. The diner has a flat, rounded hipped roof with a parapet made of fluted steel.
The southern area of the diner consists of two sections clad with steel, glass and enamel. On the north side only one section was made in the same way, while the other was completed with concrete parts . Today's kitchen block originally formed the left part of the diner, but was moved to the rear and enlarged in the course of the renovation in 1968. A main feature of the typical stainless steel diner is a roofed, centrally arranged entrance area. The different side entrance of the Corner Lunch, which has a flat roof and rests on a concrete foundation, is also a result of the renovation. There is a second entrance on the north side of the building. Rain pipes are integrated into the flanged pilasters between the windows. The corners, consisting of a combination of fluted enamel and flanged steel, are characteristic of the DeRaffele diners of the 1950s.
Inside there is a counter with 16 bar stools with steel feet and a backrest. There are seats with tables along the west and south sides. The seat surfaces of the stools and sitting areas are covered with glittering gold PVC. Dark green terrazzo tiles on the counter and the foot bars have been preserved in the original. The terrazzo floor has the colors salmon pink, yellow brown and dark green. The monitor roof is covered with yellow and salmon pink enamel. The walls below the windows and the tables are made of green laminate .
Historical meaning
The Corner Lunch is one of the last five diner in Massachusetts to be built by DeRaffele Diners. It originally stood on Long Island , New York , but was bought by the Musi Dining Car Company in 1968, moved to Worcester and reassembled. It is the only DeRaffele Diners diner still operating in Worcester and the only surviving copy of the Musi Dining Car Company's work in all of New England .
At the beginning of the 1950s, Wilfrid J. Bourassa ran the Corner Spa snack bar at the position of today's diner . In 1956, the company was entered in the municipal records as Corner Lunch with the operator Demetrios Efstathiou, which made it one of around 260 restaurants, snack bars, etc. list in Worcester. In 1968 Efstathiou took over the new diner that had been moved from New York, but kept the name. A neighboring house had to be demolished to create enough space for the diner to be set up. Since this was still not enough to set up the diner in its original configuration, it was rebuilt and, for example, the kitchen moved to the rear.
The Corner Lunch now has the largest number of seats in the city's diners and is one of only three known diners in Worcester to be built in section construction, which, unlike a restaurant cart, made it possible to construct large diners. The restaurant atmosphere aspired to inside reflects the trend that began in the 1950s towards families in particular and asserting oneself in competition with the up-and-coming fast-food chains.
literature
- Kathleen Kelly Broomer, Betsy Friedberg: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. (PDF) National Park Service , September 2000, accessed on July 21, 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.
- ↑ cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 6.
- ↑ a b cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 7.