Keeler Tavern
This 1713 stagecoach inn was providing sustenance to travelers between Boston and New York long before the Revolutionary War, but that conflict provided it with its object of greatest note. A British cannonball is embedded in one of its walls, presumably fired during the Battle of Ridgefield in 1777. The tavern is now a museum of Colonial life, with period furnishings and costumed guides, and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. And it has another claim to fame: Keeler was long the summer home of architect Cass Gilbert (1849-1934), who designed the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., and was a key figure in the construction of the George Washington Bridge in New York. Visits are by guided tour.
This 1713 stagecoach inn was providing sustenance to travelers between Boston and New York long before the Revolutionary War, but that conflict provided it with its object of greatest note. A British cannonball is embedded in one of its walls, presumably fired during the Battle of Ridgefield in 1777. The tavern is now a museum of Colonial life, with period furnishings and costumed guides, and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. And it has another claim to fame: Keeler was long the summer home of architect Cass Gilbert (1849-1934), who designed the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., and was a key figure in the construction of the George Washington Bridge in New York. Visits are by guided tour.
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