Miss Worcester Diner
| Miss Worcester Diner | |||
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 The Miss Worcester Diner in 2008 |
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| location | Worcester , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 15 '13.9 " N , 71 ° 48' 31.9" W | ||
| Built | 1948 | ||
| architect | Worcester Lunch Car Company | ||
| Architectural style | Barrel Roof Diner | ||
| NRHP number | 03001178 | ||
| The NRHP added | November 21, 2003 | ||
The Miss Worcester Diner is a 1948-built Diner in Worcester in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . It is one of the so-called "barrel roof dinners" because it has a barrel roof and was entered on November 21, 2003 as part of the Multiple Property Submission Diners of Massachusetts MPS in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
description
The Miss Worcester Diner is a well-preserved example of a late, traditional Massachusetts barrel-roof diner. Manufactured in 1948 by the Worcester Lunch Car Company under construction number # 812, it is located in a historic industrial area near the Providence and Worcester Railroad tracks . Directly to the south is the property on which the Worcester Lunch Car Company's production facilities used to be. To the north and north-east of the diner is a mill from the 1870s, in which wool scraps were processed when the diner was built.
The diner rests on a brick foundation and has a rounded barrel roof that is covered with metal plates. The outer walls are made of pale yellow enamel with accents in light blue. On the narrow sides are the two entrances to which stairs lead up. At the rear there is a one-story concrete extension built around 1948, in which the kitchen is housed.
Inside, a marble counter extends over the entire length and has fourteen bar stools decorated with red enamel elements. On the south wall there are a total of five table niches made of plywood covered with laminate . In contrast to the yellow / blue exterior design, the interior is dominated by dark red, cream and brown, and there are also decorative elements made of steel and wood.
Historical meaning
The Miss Worcester Diner is a well-preserved post-war example of the type of barrel roof diner that the Worcester Lunch Car Company has handcrafted since the 1920s. Due to its position directly opposite the former production site, which was active until 1961, it served as a demonstrator and model for future customers of the manufacturer and was for a long time the showcase diner in the city.
It was built as construction number # 812 for Dino Sotiropoulos and delivered on June 14, 1948. It was set up at the current location, where at least one other diner had previously stood. This was operated in 1939 by Fred Gramm under the name Carroll's Diner and continued as Star Diner from 1940 by John P. Holden . In the mid-1940s, George LC Bianchi took over the diner, who was also the manager of the Bianchi Tile & Marble Company. In 1949 he passed the diner on to Dino Sotiropoulos, who replaced it with a new building that year and renamed it Miss Worcester Diner.
1951 Dino Soteropoulos, Theo C. Soter and Andrew T. Soter were registered as operators; It is assumed that "Soter" is the abbreviation of "Soteropoulos" made for linguistic reasons and that the three owners were related to each other. They ran the diner together until 1963, when Costa Mitro from Webster bought the diner. From 1968 to 1985 it was operated by George Army, who was also President of Miss Worcester Inc. Tina Budzinski, a former waitress at the nearby Corner Lunch and Miss Worcester, ran the diner for a few years until it was taken over by Frank Riggeri in the early 2000s.
literature
- Kathleen Kelly Broomer, Betsy Friedberg: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. (PDF) National Park Service , September 2003, accessed on August 3, 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 cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 5.
- ↑ a b cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 6.
- ↑ cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 7.