Stewart's Tavern Traditional Cache
KG8GN: Cleaning some caches up before winter.
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Stewart's Tavern is situated on a small lot off a main road in the wide valley of Short Gap. The structure has been moved about sixty feet from where it once stood. The original site of the tavern is now a triangular plot of land created by the construction of a fork in the road. Stewart's tavern is still located on property associated with the original owner, just across Knobley Road where it forks from State Route 956.
The tavern was built in the latter part of the eighteenth century with hand hewn chestnut logs having steeple notching. It is a two and a half story log structure supported by a foundation of stone. The roof has side gables and corrugated metal sheeting. On the front facade a full shed porch also has a corrugated metal roof while wooden posts, deck, and rail are supported by a stone pier foundation. A grist mill stone provides a step to the porch deck. A new wood plank door is to the left side of the first floor with a 6/6 double-hung sash window to the right. A11 doors and windows are new, but are very elaborate and precise in detail to look like the original construction. The window muntins are pinned into the sash. The large wooden plank doors have metal hinges and handles. The north facade has two 6/6 double-hung sash windows on each floor and two 6-pane fixed windows in its peak; all separated by a stone chimney. The south facade has a centered door on each floor. The bottom door is reached by two steps up to a small wood deck. The rear facade, or west side, has a first floor door and three 6/6 double-hung sash windows.
The two floors in Stewart's Tavern have one large room with a dogleg staircase in the southwest comer of the room. Under the first floor staircase is a small storage closet with a vertical wood plank door. The stone fireplace on the north wall has a stone foundation and a log mantle. It is suspected that early drain pipes in the tavern were also made of chestnut wood.
A later two-story addition from the late 19th century has been removed, so the building now stands as it was originally constructed.
Please do not exchange signature items (Wooden Nickels, Business Cards) for swag. If you want to leave your signature item and take other signature item for your collection, feel free. I do not consider signature items as a swag item. So please do not take swag if you do not have swag to offer.
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