The Hopestill Bent Tavern is a historic First Period tavern (now a private residence) in Wayland, Massachusetts, United States. The oldest portion of this 2+1⁄2-story building was built on this site c. 1710, and consisted of two rooms with a central chimney. Around 1800 a second First Period structure was moved to the site and attached to the first, giving the building most of its present form. The building is also unusual for the period in that some of its rooms have no fireplace, and that the upstairs exhibits evidence of significant reuse of older building materials, a practice that was generally restricted to the attic or basement. The building exhibits modest Federal styling, in keeping with the c. 1800 alterations.
Hopestill Bent Tavern | |
 Hopestill Bent Tavern | |
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| Location | 252 Old Connecticut Path, Wayland, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°20′30″N 71°22′14″W / 42.34167°N 71.37056°W |
| Built | 1710 |
| Architectural style | Colonial |
| MPS | First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 90000188[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 9, 1990 |
Its builder and first proprietor was Hopestill Bent (1672–1725).[2] Hopestill Bent fought in King William's War (one of the French and Indian Wars). Hopestill Bent was the great-grandfather of Silas Bent Jr. and great-great-grandfather of Charles Bent, the trader and first territorial Governor of New Mexico during the Mexican-American War[3]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Hopestill Bent Tavern". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
- ^ "The Bent Family In America". D. Clapp & Son (1900). Retrieved 24 May 2023.