{"nrhp_refnum":"03001242","name":"Miss Toy Town Diner","other_names":["Blue Moon Diner","Bernier's Diner","Worcester Lunch Car Company #815","Skip's Blue Moon Diner"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"102 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gardner","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.57424098300004,"lon":-71.99411860699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1949 Worcester Lunch Car Company barrel-roof diner at 102 Main Street in Gardner, Massachusetts, originally the Miss Toy Town Diner in Winchendon and moved to Gardner in 1954.","why_significant":"It is a well-preserved, late example of the barrel-roofed diners built by the Worcester Lunch Car Company, the state's premier diner builder. It is locally significant for its association with Gardner diner man Arthur L. Bernier, who moved it to the city in 1954. It is also the last diner in Gardner, a city with a diner and lunch cart history dating to 1909.","narrative":"Blue Moon Diner, at 102 Main Street in Gardner, Massachusetts, is a factory-built barrel-roof diner produced in 1949 by the Worcester Lunch Car Company as diner #815. It was delivered on April 14, 1949, and first operated as the Miss Toy Town Diner in Winchendon. Gardner native Arthur L. Bernier bought it and moved it to Gardner in 1954 to replace his older Blue Moon Diner, which needed repairs. The wood-frame building is seven bays wide and three deep, with pale yellow porcelain enamel panels, blue trim, stainless steel doors with a sunburst motif and a restored interior with a marble counter. A rear addition holds more seating and kitchen space. It closed in 1960, sat vacant for years, and was restored in the 1980s with diner historian Richard Gutman. It is the last diner in Gardner and a late example of the Worcester company's handcrafted work, which is why it was listed for architecture and commerce.","period_of_significance":"1949-1954","architect_builder":"Worcester Lunch Car Company","architectural_style":"Other: New England Barrel Roof Diner","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored in the mid-1980s and operating as a restaurant; the historic name Blue Moon Diner was restored in 2000.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.027488-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7931/63793180/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/03001242.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001242/b725a3aa23-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001242/b725a3aa23-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Moon_Diner_(Miss_Toy_Town_Diner)_-_Gardner,_MA_-_DSC00907.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Moon_Diner_(Miss_Toy_Town_Diner)_-_Gardner,_MA_-_DSC00907.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793180","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_Diner","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715716"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/miss-toy-town-diner-03001242/"}