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Wayside Inn Historic District | |
Location | Sudbury, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°21′28″N71°28′5″W / 42.35778°N 71.46806°W |
Built | 1686 |
Architect | Multiple |
Architectural style | Greek Revival, Colonial |
NRHP reference No. | 73000307 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 23, 1973 |
The Wayside Inn Historic District is a historic district on Old Boston Post Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The district contains the Wayside Inn, a historic landmark that is one of the oldest inns in the country, operating as Howe's Tavern in 1716. [2] The district features Greek Revival and American colonial architecture. The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Henry Ford built a replica and fully working grist mill and a white non-denominational chapel, named after his mother, Mary, and mother-in-law, Martha.[ citation needed ] Less well known is Ford's attempt to create a reservoir for the Wayside Inn. Across US Rte. 20 and now secluded in a wooded area behind private homes is a 30 ft. high stone dam. Dubbed by the locals as "Ford's Folly" the structure failed to retain water because the feeding brook provided insufficient volume and the ground was too porous for a pond to fill.[ citation needed ]
In the grounds of the chapel stands the Redstone School, a one-room schoolhouse which was moved from its original location in Sterling, Massachusetts, by Ford, who believed the building was the actual schoolhouse mentioned in Sarah Josepha Hale's poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb". [3] [4]
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