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Item Title
Modern Diner, 13 Dexter Street, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
Location13 Dexter Street,
Pawtucket, RI
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS RI-385
Significance: The Modern Diner is one of two remaining Sterling Streamliners, a line of customized, factory-built, "modernistic" diners manufactured in the 1930s and early 1940s by the J.B. Judkins Co. of Merrimack, Mass. It is a landmark in the history of American design and food-service merchandising.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL NORTHEAST VIEW
2. WEST ELEVATION
3. NORTHEAST VIEW
4. NORTH VIEW, CANTED BOW OF DINER
5. NORTHWEST VIEW
6. INTERIOR DOOR AND BOOTHS, LOOKING NORTHWEST
7. INTERIOR STOOLS AND COUNTER, LOOKING NORTHEAST
8. INTERIOR COUNTER AND SERVING AREA, LOOKING WEST
9. INTERIOR BOOTHS AND BOW END, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
10. INTERIOR BOOTHS AND BOW END, LOOKING SOUTH
11. INTERIOR DETAIL STERLING DINER MANUFACTURER'S PLATE
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