Munson Diner

{{short description|Historic commercial building in New York, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Munson Diner

| nrhp_type =

| image = Munson_Diner,_Liberty,_New_York.jpg

| caption = Munson Diner, July 2018

| location = 12 Lake St. (NY 55), Liberty, New York

| coordinates = {{coord|41|47|47|N|74|44|46|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = New York#USA

| built = 1945

| architect = Kullman Dining Car Co.

| architecture = Moderne

| added = April 12, 2006

| area = {{convert|0.5|acre}}

| refnum = 06000256{{NRISref|2009a}}

}}

File:Munson Diner, Liberty, New York interior.jpg

Munson Diner is a historic diner located at Liberty in Sullivan County, New York. It was manufactured in 1945 by the Kullman Dining Car Company of Lebanon, New Jersey. It has a riveted steel frame and exterior of stainless steel and porcelain enamel. It has a long, rectangular form, 16 feet wide by 50 feet long. The interior has a plan typical of the diners of the 1940s and 1950s. It was moved from West 49th Street and 11th Avenue, New York City, to Liberty in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=101549|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Munson Diner|date=July 2005|accessdate=2010-06-26 |first=Kathleen |last=LaFrank|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation}} See also: {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=101551|title=Accompanying five photos}}{{cite news | newspaper = The New York Times | access-date = October 26, 2022 | title = Manhattan Diner Pulls Up Roots, and Countertop, for the Catskills | first = Anthony | last = Ramirez | date = May 5, 2005 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/05/nyregion/manhattan-diner-pulls-up-roots-and-countertop-for-the-catskills.html }}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Allan Bérubé (1946–2007) initiated the saving, redevelopment, and moving of the diner.{{cite news |first=Margalit |last=Fox |title=Allan Bérubé Is Dead at 61; Historian of Gays in Military |work=The New York Times |date=December 16, 2007 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/nyregion/16berube.html |quote=In a project that attracted considerable attention in the news media, he arranged to have the Munson Diner, a derelict Hell's Kitchen landmark from the 1940s, moved there from Manhattan.}}