The Modernaire Motel, built in 1949 to serve Lincoln Highway motorists before the Route 30 by-pass went in, sits at a prime spot on East Market Street at Mount Zion Road. Patrons used to enter the motel, according to Lincoln Highway expert Brian Butko, on the art deco building's rounded corner. But later, the entrance was moved to the side. Background posts: York County ... 'A smorgasbord of architectural styles' and Just try to resist studying this memory-tugging photograph and Coca-Cola out in Springetts... self-storage space is real thing and Change flattens Stony Brook's drive-in, humpback bridge.
Richard E. Zimmerman Sr. was a war hero and banker, well known around town.
And his recent death reminded York County folks of how he was best known - as longtime owner of the Modernaire Motel on East Market Street.
York Daily Record/Sunday News writer Mike Argento noted (4/10/09) that Zimmerman's stint in banking including time as manager of the Round Bank, now M & T's Queensgate branch.
Zimmerman left banking in 1966 to take over the round-sided Modernaire.
He thought it would be interesting, Argento wrote.
Argento told about one such interesting incident:
Continue reading Landmark Modernaire Motel built in Lincoln Highway's heyday.
