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Photographs May, 2005: Courtesy of Bob Venditti
 
Smithtown-Commack, New York -- 450 Moreland Rd
 
The Smithtown or Commack Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge opened in the summer of 1972 adjacent to a pre-existing stand-alone Restaurant. Smithtown's Mansard lobby, topped with an Orange Roof, is the very last to feature a Beacon. The Beacon was a stylized version of a HoJo's cupola and widely used in new construction and in renovations by the middle 1970s. Another unusual feature of the lobby is its nearly unique Orange Roof Mansard application--only Sioux Falls, SD had a similar roof design.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Photographs February 13, 2005: Courtesy of Steven LJ Russo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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