Postcard, The Bar Room, Longfellow's Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts, circa 1926

THF104726 / Postcard, The Bar Room, Longfellow's Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts, circa 1926 / front
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Artifact Overview

One option for early motorists in search of overnight lodging was to stay in an old stagecoach inn, like Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The inn, named after a popular book of poems written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1863, first opened as Howe's Taven in 1716. In 1923, Henry Ford restored the inn and opened it to travelers.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Postcard

Date Made

circa 1926

Subject Date

circa 1926

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

89.0.543.249

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 3.5 in
Width: 5.5 in

Inscriptions

Caption on front: The Bar Room, Longfellow's Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Mass.
Postcard, The Bar Room, Longfellow's Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts, circa 1926