Mickey's Diner

Architect
Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company
Year
1939
Style
Streamline Moderne
City
Twin Cities, MN
Mickey's Diner
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Mickey's Diner is a 1939 Streamline Moderne diner in St. Paul, built as a prefabricated diner car by the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and remains a recognizable, still-operating streetside presence.

the building

Prefabricated diner car. Mickey's Diner was built by the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company as a prefabricated diner car, a typology built in a factory and shipped to its site, distinct from a conventional building.

the style

The diner is built in the Streamline Moderne style, applying the streamlined vocabulary of the era to the small prefabricated diner car form.

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the architect

Mickey's Diner was built by the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company, a manufacturer of prefabricated diner cars.

significance

Mickey's Diner, completed in 1939, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and still operates today.

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