Salem Tavern
Description
The Salem Tavern is located on the west side of South Main Street, between Blum and East Walnut Streets. It consists of two separate buildings, one brick and one wood frame. Both are 2+1⁄2 stories in height, and have gabled roofs. The brick building is set on a raised foundation, with a single-story shed-roof porch extending across the front, supported by square posts and accessed from the sidewalk by side-facing stairs. The front portion of the building houses public rooms on the ground floor, and sleeping quarters for guests above, with the kitchen and landlord's quarters in an ell to the rear. The adjacent wood-frame building housed additional sleeping quarters.
History
Constructed on the foundations of an earlier 1771 Tavern which burnt to the ground in 1784, the Salem Tavern was quickly rebuilt, because it formed an important function in the Moravian Church community which was a trade town. Constructed by mason Johann Gottlob Krause using bricks already on hand for another building, the Tavern reopened quickly. The Tavern complex was later expanded by the construction of a wooden building to the north in 1815, then a building connected the two was constructed in 1832. A two-story porch was run across the three buildings in 1838, but has since been removed. The Tavern was the lodgings for George Washington for two nights during his Southern Tour in 1791.
The Tavern and adjacent 1815 building have been restored to their original appearances.
Gallery
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The Tavern, HABS Photo, 1934
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1815 Salem Tavern, September 2019
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Forsyth County, North Carolina
References
- ^ "Salem Tavern". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 20, 2009. Retrieved February 26, 2008.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ Polly M. Rettig and Horace J. Sheehy Jr. (June 5, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Salem Tavern" (pdf). National Park Service.
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Sources
- Old Salem: The Official Guidebook. Penelope Niven and Cornelia Wright. Old Salem Inc.: Winston-Salem, NC. 2000.
External links
- Media related to Salem Tavern at Wikimedia Commons
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-12-C-3, "The Tavern, 800 South Main Street, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, NC", 8 photos, 13 measured drawings, 8 data pages