The
Seekonk complex opened in the spring of 1970. It was a classic Motor
Lodge and Restaurant complex, and was always listed in directories
as a Providence, Rhode Island area location rather than in the Massachusetts
section.
Unfortunately
the once pristine Orange Roofed site was converted into a Motel
6. Accor, owner of the Motel 6 brand, totally destroys the facilities
it converts. All character is removed and replaced with a cold starkness.
As a Motel 6 the former Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge is not a very
inviting place--in fact it somewhat resembles a sterile prison block--just
without the razor wire topped fence. Moreover the Motor Lodge's
Gate Lodge was demolished, and according to P. Warrender the Restaurant
was morphed into an unrecognizable form when it became a 99 during
the 1990s. |