Cottage Bakery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Cottage Bakery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Cottage Bakery is a historic building on Central Avenue (former U.S. Route 66) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was built in 1937 by a local bakery, the Cottage Pure Food Shoppe, and is significant as a relatively unaltered 1930s food-vending establishment, as well as for its use of roadside novelty architecture to attract customers. The front of the building was constructed in the form of a thatched cottage, which was intended to evoke "a bucolic purity that clients would associate with dairy and bakery products". With . It was listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. Read more on Wikipedia
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