Get out your saddle shoes and your poodle skirt. A lake property with a 1950s-style diner is on the current market for the to start with time in many years.
The house on Syracuse Lake in Syracuse, IN, is mentioned for $1,799,900.
And the retro-novelty space—complete with jukebox—is a authentic highlight.
“There’s a waterside, 1950s diner,” claims listing agent Deb Paton Showley, with the Coldwell Banker Serious Estate Group – Warsaw. The sellers “had some things recreated to look like it was genuine from that interval, with products and fashion of almost everything.”

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The diner is part of the one particular-bed room, 1-bathtub guesthouse that sits on the property’s 83 ft of shoreline.
“It’s definitely just a guesthouse with a total kitchen area that became an overflow location when they experienced loads of firm,” Paton Showley points out. “Then they received the plan to complete it out in a diner fashion and make it for enjoyment, so that’s what they did. … They even had their significant faculty pics blown up of their classmates, as 1 of the wall decorations.”
And everything inside of the diner conveys with the house.
“Everyone appears to come to feel like it belongs there and, so much, every person who has regarded the property has requested for it to continue being,” Paton Showley claims.

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The household was created in 1962 and even though some of its authentic features have been taken care of, it also went via a big overhaul all through the pretty much-40 decades the sellers have owned the place.
“They required to integrate the unique really feel and essence of the household, so they saved the beams, and they stored a whole lot of matters the exact,” Paton Showley suggests.
One particular of the home’s authentic characteristics is its spherical fireplace.
“I’ve noticed a couple of of them in some of the lakefront qualities but in no way 1 really like this, with the copper,” she says, noting that the fire is even now functional. The owners “felt like it was a centerpiece for the dwelling and a piece of artwork. From the kitchen area, eating room, dwelling area, and the foyer, you can see that hearth, and you can also see the lake sights from all of people locations.”
The 4,476-sq.-foot most important dwelling has 6 bedrooms and 4.5 bogs. The sellers originally employed the house as a holiday vacation getaway but at some point moved into it complete time.

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Paton Showley states the home is in fantastic affliction but could use some cosmetic updates, if the consumer is inclined.
There is just one amenity that needs no revising, although.
“The sights just sink into your soul and you just can’t overlook them,” she suggests.
Conveniently, the home is within a handful of hours travel of Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Columbus, OH.