The Central Diner, now called The Liberty Elm and formerly or also known as Elmwood Diner, Jenn's Elmwood Diner, Ole Elmwood Diner, Liberty Elm Diner, or Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner #806, is a historic diner

Diner

A diner, also spelled dinor in western Pennsylvania is a prefabricated restaurant building characteristic of North America, especially in the Midwest, in New York City, in Pennsylvania and in New Jersey, and in other areas of the Northeastern United States, although examples can be found throughout...

 at 777 Elmwood Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...

. It was built in 1947.

According to the National Park Service:

The 1947 Central Diner--Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner #806 is a rare and well-preserved example of a distinctive twentieth-century American building type. The Central Diner, which is still in use, is a one-story, steel-framed prefabricated structure, measuring ten feet six inches in width by forty feet in length with three-foot projecting roof overhangs on each end. Inside, the diner has remained largely intact since the day it rolled out of the Worcester Lunch Car Company factory, and is in good condition. Diners were once a fixture of Providence's business centers, industrial districts, and roadsides, serving shift workers, after-hours revelers, business people, and drivers at all hours of the day and night. In the last decades of the twentieth century, Americans began to rediscover the history and architecture of the diner.

The building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 on January 13, 2010. The listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service

National Park Service

The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...

's weekly list of January 22, 2010.