Town diner
| Town diner | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The Deluxe Town Diner in 2009 |
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| location | Watertown , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 22 '15.4 " N , 71 ° 9' 28.8" W | ||
| surface | 1,180 m² | ||
| Built | 1947 | ||
| architect | DeLoria / NDC Construction Company | ||
| NRHP number | 99001127 | ||
| The NRHP added | September 22, 1999 | ||
The Deluxe Town Diner (formerly Town Diner ) is a 1947 built diner in Watertown in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It was entered on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on September 22, 1999 under the Multiple Property Submission Diners of Massachusetts MPS under the designation Town Diner .
description
The Town Diner is one of the oldest still existing diners in Massachusetts that were not completely prefabricated in the factory as before, but instead were built directly on site. It is located near the Cambridge border in a Watertown business district on Massachusetts Route 16 .
The diner consists of an almost rectangular steel frame, which is adjoined on the southeast side by an extension built on a wooden frame. This L-shaped look was given to the restaurant when it was first built in 1947 when it was built around an older Worcester Lunch Car Company restaurant car that now serves as a kitchen and is not visible from the outside. The restaurant stands on a high concrete foundation with glass basement windows. It has a barrel roof and is clad with cream or petrol colored enamel . The corners are partially rounded, and there is an entrance on each of the northeast and northwest sides of the building.
The interior is a mixture of typical diner and restaurant items and has largely been preserved in the original. The counter extends the entire length of the northeast section of the L-shaped floor plan and has 16 PVC -covered bar stools. There are additional table niches along the long sides.
Historical meaning
The first Town Diner at this location was opened by Joseph E. Carroll in the mid-1930s, at the time in a small Worcester Lunch Car Company restaurant car. From 1942 Arthur C. Derosiers ran the diner and in 1945 handed it over to Louis Contos, who had immigrated from Greece around 30 years earlier and ran it together with his son George.
In 1947 they expanded the diner considerably with the L-shaped extension and converted the former restaurant car into the new kitchen. The design combines elements of the classic barrel roof diner with contemporary style elements from the 1940s, such as the generous use of stainless steel . The Contos family operated the diner until the 1980s when the current owner took over the diner, which now operates two other "deluxe diners" in Massachusetts.
See also
literature
- Kathleen Kelly Broomer, Betsy Friedberg: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. (PDF) National Park Service , June 1999, accessed on August 15, 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.
- ↑ cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 6.
- ↑ cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 7.