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Good News...?

Posted by abohan Senin, 09 Juli 2012 0 komentar

Can It be?
Just months after we mourned the departure of both the Black Cat Cafe and Awakenings Espresso Cafe from downtown Laconia, it looks like the spot where the Black Cat once prospered is being prepared for a new restaurant. And it will be a "dining spot," we're told.
(Awakenings moved to Gilford; the last owners of the Black Cat closed the business.)

The Laconia train station, built in 1892, was designed by Bradford Gilbert.
Gilbert is best known for designing the world's first steel-framed curtain wall building,
the Tower Building in New York City.

It's hard to imagine a better environment for an eatery. The old Victorian train station is likely the finest example of Romanesque Revival architecture in the state, and converting it into a full-menu restaurant was the dream of the former Black Cat owner, the late Kinney O'Rourke.

The structure was named to the National Register of Historic Places 30 years ago this year, in 1982.

from Wikipedia:

At its dedication in August 1892, the Laconia Democrat described it as follows

The main features of the building are the port-cochere at the entrance and the large general waiting room or rotunda, open to the roof, with clerestory windows on all sides. The floor of this room is of tile, and the wall to a height of ten feet are finished in quartered oak, and above that plastered and tinted in two shades of chrome.^[3]

(See the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society webpage for more info on this magnificent building.

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