On the Menu: Indiana Lake House Comes With a 1950s-Style Diner for $1.8M

Get out your saddle shoes and your poodle skirt. A lake house with a 1950s-style diner is on the market for the first time in decades.

The home on Syracuse Lake in Syracuse, IN, is listed for $1,799,900.

And the retro-novelty space—complete with jukebox—is a real highlight.

“There’s a waterside, 1950s diner,” says listing agent Deb Paton Showley, with the Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group – Warsaw. The sellers “had some stuff recreated to look like it was authentic from that period, with materials and style of everything.”

The diner is part of the one-bedroom, one-bath guesthouse that sits on the property’s 83 feet of shoreline.

“It’s really just a guesthouse with a full kitchen that became an overflow place when they had lots of company,” Paton Showley explains. “Then they got the idea to finish it out in a diner style and make it for entertainment, so that’s what they did. … They even had their high school photos blown up of their classmates, as one of the wall decorations.”

And everything inside the diner conveys with the house.

“Everyone seems to feel like it belongs there and, so far, everyone who has considered the property has asked for it to remain,” Paton Showley says.

The home was built in 1962 and while some of its original elements have been maintained, it also went through a major overhaul during the almost-40 years the sellers have owned the place.

“They wanted to incorporate the original feel and essence of the house, so they kept the beams, and they kept a lot of things the same,” Paton Showley says.

One of the home’s original features is its round fireplace.

“I’ve seen a few of them in some of the lakefront properties but never one quite like this, with the copper,” she says, noting that the fireplace is still functional. The owners “felt like it was a centerpiece for the house and a piece of art. From the kitchen, dining room, living space, and the foyer, you can see that fireplace, and you can also see the lake views from all of those areas.”

The 4,476-square-foot main house has six bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. The sellers originally used the home as a vacation getaway but eventually moved into it full time.

Paton Showley says the home is in great condition but could use some cosmetic updates, if the buyer is inclined.

There is one amenity that needs no revising, though.

“The views just sink into your soul and you can’t forget them,” she says.

Conveniently, the house is within a few hours drive of Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Columbus, OH.

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