We all know the story of the Tory House and the bullet doors. Interesting to find that at some point between 1933 and 1945 the house was a restaurant serving Lunch, Dinner and Tea. Ms. Frances H. Tomer purchased the house from Frank and Shirley (Houde) Lawton in November 1933. She is listed in the deed as being from Waltham. There is a Frances H. Tomer in the Waltham Directories 1933-1936, a teacher at the Waltham School for Girls. The home is sold in 1945 to Richard E. Truesdell by Frances H. Tomer of Rochester, New York. It’s unclear how long the restaurant operated. Frances H. Tomer is not in the Littleton 1940 census but there is a Frances H. Tomer in Rochester NY with the 1935 residence being Waltham.
It was interesting that on the front she advertised “bridge reservations.” You must have been able to reserve a table to play cards. That would have been a social activity that normally you would think they would just play at home but here you would be in a tea house.
