Agawam Diner

	Agawam Diner
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Rowley, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°42′17″N 70°54′37″W / 42.70472°N 70.91028°W
Built	1954
Architect	Fodero Dining Car Company
Architectural style	Other
MPS	Diners of Massachusetts MPS
NRHP reference No.	99001124
Added to NRHP	September 22, 1999

The Agawam Diner is a historic diner at 166 Newburyport Turnpike (U.S. Route 1) in Rowley, Massachusetts.

The diner was built in 1954 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

History

"Built by Fodero Dining Car Company in 1954, the original Agawam Diner was opened by the Galanis Family in 1940. The current diner replaced the original in Ipswich's Depot Square in 1954. Moved twice in 1967, first to Peabody and then to its current Route 1 location in Rowley, the Agawam Diner remains a family business."^[2]

The first diner was a small Worcester diner bought in 1940 with a $750 deposit. A larger diner was purchased in 1947. In 1954, they upgraded to a Fodero diner from Bloomfield, NJ.^[3]

The diner is named for a local Indian tribe and since 1940 has been owned and operated by the Galanis family.^[4]