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Palmer

Palmer Restaurant
65 Lorne Street, Sackville

PALMER RESTAURANT

Palmer Restaurant is a two story, concrete block Arts and Crafts building. It represents the brief period early in the 20th century when the Sackville Concrete Company offered concrete blocks for building. Entire town blocks were built of concrete block at that time but this is one of only two surviving storefronts built in Sackville in the late 1910's and early 1920's.

George Palmer built this building which contained a store and a residence. It was located near the Railway Station and also next door to the Intercolonial Hotel, and provided meals for train passengers. A popular cook, Mrs. Herbert Anderson, purchased the restaurant business in 1946 and most residents today remember the location as the Anderson Restaurant. It remained open until the mid 1960s.

This site is listed in the Canadian Register of Historic Places ; for fuller details see Palmer Restaurant

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