Town Diner

The Deluxe Town Diner is an historic diner in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Town Diner
Location627 Mount Auburn St.,
Watertown, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°22′15″N 71°9′31″W
Built1947
ArchitectDeLoria; NDC Construction Company
MPSDiners of Massachusetts MPS
NRHP reference No.99001127[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 22, 1999

This diner was manufactured on site, rather than having been prefabricated and shipped to the site from a specific diner manufacturer. In 1947, George Contos and his father built this diner around their earlier Worcester Lunch Car Company diner. The Worcester diner became the kitchen in the current building. The Town Diner's two-tone porcelain siding and its round glass-block corners combine architectural features of the Worcester and Paramount Diner manufacturers, respectively.[2]

The diner was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as "Town Diner".[1]

See also

References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Richard S. Gutman. American Diner: Then and Now, New York: Harper Perennial, 1993, p. 144.


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