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{{Infobox NRHP
  | name = Donwell's Diner-Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner No. 774
  | nrhp_type = 
  | location= 560 Mineral Springs Ave., [[Pawtucket, Rhode Island|Pawtucket]], [[Providence County, Rhode Island]]
|image= Miss_Lorraine_Diner,_Pawtucket_Rhode_Island.jpg
  | caption = Diner in 2021
  | coordinates = {{coord|41.8729|-71.4064|source:NOTNRIS2013a|display=inline,title}}
  | locmapin = Rhode Island
  | built = 1941
  | architect=
| builder = [[Worcester Lunch Car Company]]
  | architecture =
  | added = October 25, 2021
  | area ={{convert|.02|acre|ha}}
  | refnum =100007075<ref name=weekly>{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/weekly-list-2021-10-29.htm |title=Weekly List 2021 10 29 |publisher=[[National Park Service]]}}</ref>
}}
The '''Donwell's Diner-Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner No. 774''' or '''Miss Lorraine Diner''' is a historic dining car located at 560 Mineral Springs Avenue ([[Rhode Island Route 15]]) in [[Pawtucket, Rhode Island]], although much of the diner's existence has been in [[Connecticut]]. Through various new locations and owners, it has also been known as '''Squeak's Diner''', as '''Drake's Diner''', as '''Donovan's Diner''', and as '''The Hotel Diner'''.<ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite report|type=none|url=https://preservation.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur406/files/2021-11/pawt_mineral-spring-avenue-560_donwells-diner.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Donwell's Diner (Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner No. 774) / Miss Lorraine Diner / Squeak's Diner / Drake's Diner / Donovan's Diner / The Hotel Diner |publisher=[[Preservation Rhode Island]]|author=Ryan Cameron |date=November 2020 |access-date=August 1, 2022}} Includes 21 photos (from 2021?).</ref>

==History==
The diner was originally known as '''Donwell's Diner''' in [[Hartford, Connecticut]]. This is a [[Worcester Streamliner]] [[dining car]] built in 1941 by the [[Worcester Lunch Car Company]], and was located at 357 Asylum 
Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut across from the [[Hotel Bond]].<ref name=opens>{{cite news|url=https://www.rimonthly.com/miss-lorraine-diner-opens-at-pawtuckets-lorraine-mills/ |title=Miss Lorraine Diner Opens |publisher=[[RImonthly]] [[Rhode Island Monthly]]}}</ref> The name was said to be a [[portmanteau]] of the owners' names, J. Edward & Edith Donnellan and Chester L. Wells. In the summer of 1949, it was bought by Elliot Drake and John J. Hibben, and renamed as '''Drake's Diner'''. Drake was arrested in 1953 for failing to pay his employees, and the diner was renamed as '''Donovan's Diner'''. By the mid-1950's it was bought by George Swan, and renamed '''The Hotel Diner'''.<ref name=nrhpdoc/>

In 1956, the diner was auctioned off and moved to [[Kensington, Connecticut]], where it remained inoperative for a decade. In 1969, it was bought in another auction by Ida and Stanley “Squeak” Zawisa, who moved it to 190 East Main Street in [[Middletown, Connecticut]], where it operated as '''Squeak's Diner''' until 1997.<ref name=nrhpdoc/><ref>[https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Squeak-s-Diner-hits-the-road-11913826.php "Squeak's Diner hits the road," by John Christie (The Middletown Press; October 11, 2003)]</ref>

[[File:Miss Lorraine Diner interior, Pawtucket RI.jpg|left|thumb|Interior, in 2021]]
The diner was purchased by filmmaker and diner enthusiast [[Colin Strayer]] in October 2003, who intended to move it to temporary storage near his home in [[Syracuse, New York]].<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/257356749 “Old Diner Moving To A Brighter Future,” by Josh Kovner (Hartford Courant; October 10, 2003)] (accessed March 23, 2021)</ref> Discovered in a field in Middletown as part of another failed restoration attempt, it was later sold to another diner enthusiast named Jonathan Savage, who then moved it to Pawtucket at the Lorraine Mills Textile Manufacturing Complex along [[Rhode Island Route 15|RI 15]], where it remained dormant for more than nine years before opening on January 28, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Miss Lorraine Diner (Donwell's Diner) |url=https://www.macrostiehistoric.com/miss-lorraine-diner |website=MacRostie Historic Advisors LLC |publisher=MacRostie Historic Advisors LLC |access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref><ref name="Coelho">{{cite news |last1=Coelho |first1=Jamie |title=Miss Lorraine Diner Opens at Pawtucket's Lorraine Mills |url=https://www.rimonthly.com/miss-lorraine-diner-opens-at-pawtuckets-lorraine-mills/ |access-date=10 November 2021 |publisher=Rhode Island Monthly |date=28 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116140632/https://www.rimonthly.com/miss-lorraine-diner-opens-at-pawtuckets-lorraine-mills/ |archive-date=16 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="Doiron">{{cite news |last1=Doiron |first1=Sarah |title=Pawtucket diner nationally recognized as historically significant |url=https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/blackstone-valley/pawtucket-diner-nationally-recognized-as-historically-significant/ |access-date=11 November 2021 |publisher=WPRI News 12 |date=5 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110022859/https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/blackstone-valley/pawtucket-diner-nationally-recognized-as-historically-significant/ |archive-date=10 November 2021}}</ref>

It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2021.<ref name=weekly/><ref name=recognized>{{cite news|url=https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/blackstone-valley/pawtucket-diner-nationally-recognized-as-historically-significant/ |title=Pawtucket Diner Nationally Recognized |publisher=[[WPRI]]}}</ref>



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==References==
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==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Miss Lorraine Diner}}




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