Crossroads Tavern

Crossroads Tavern, also known as Crossroads Inn, is a historic inn and tavern located at North Garden in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. The building was constructed about 1820 and served travelers and farmers along the Staunton and James River Turnpike during the nineteenth century. In the mid nineteenth century the tavern was owned and operated by Clifton G. Sutherland, son of Joseph Sutherland. After Sutherland's death, the land was sold at public auction in 1889 to Daniel B. Landes, and the property subsequently passed through various owners over the years. The tavern is an early nineteenth-century two- to three-story, three-bay, double pile brick structure. It sits on a brick and stone foundation, is roofed with tin, and has pairs of interior brick chimneys on either gable end. The brick is laid in five-course American bond with a Flemish variant. The front facade is dominated by a second-story porch extending the entire width of the south and east facades, supported by five rounded brick columns, with a tin roof above supported by simple square wooden pillars connected by horizontal rails. The basement level contains a kitchen, dining room, a spirits cellar with its original barrel racks, and a laundry fireplace. Much of the interior woodwork is original, including floors, chair rails, mantels, and built-in cupboards. A two-story contributing summer kitchen also stands on the property. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and is also part of the Southern Albemarle Rural Historic District. It is operated as a bed and breakfast, continuing its historic role as a place of lodging for travelers.

Crossroads Tavern, also known as Crossroads Inn, is a historic inn and tavern located at North Garden in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. It was built about 1820. In the mid nineteenth century, Clifton G. Sutherland, son of Joseph Sutherland, owned and ran the tavern, which was located on the Staunton and James River Turnpike. It served as a tavern and overnight lodging for farmers and travelers using the turnpike. In 1889, Daniel B. Landes bought the land at the public auction of the estate of Clifton Sutherland. The property continued to be conveyed to various owners over the years. The building is an early nineteenth-century two- to three-story, three-bay, double pile brick structure. It sits on a brick and stone foundation, is roofed with tin, and has pairs of interior brick chimneys on either gable end. The brick is laid in five-course American bond with a Flemish variant. Windows on the basement level at the rear of the house (north side) are barred; other basement windows are nine-over-six sash. Put-holes are found at the west end of the building, formerly providing sockets for scaffold boards should repairs be necessary. The front facade is dominated by a porch on the second story extending the entire width of the south and east facades. It is supported by five rounded brick columns, and the tin roof above is supported by simple square wooden pillars connected by horizontal rails. Doors at the front of the basement level open respectively into a kitchen and dining room and into a spirits cellar with its original barrel racks as well as a laundry fireplace. Floors on this level were originally dirt, but the dining room and kitchen floors have been cemented. The main entrance door on the second level, with its multi-pane lights, opens onto a central stair hall with two main rooms on either side. This stair hall has an ascending stair at its front and both ascending and descending stairs toward its center. Formerly the ascending stairs led to upstairs areas which did not connect. There is no ridge pole in the three attic rooms. The interiors of windows and doors on the main entrance side have extremely long wooden lintels. With few exceptions, the interior woodwork is original, including floors, chair rails, mantels, and built-in cupboards. Also on the property is a two-story contributing summer kitchen, brick up to the second story and frame above, and with an exterior brick chimney at the rear gable with fireplaces on both floors. It is operated as a bed and breakfast. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The Crossroads Tavern Inn is also part of the Southern Albemarle Rural Historic District.

• 1984

  Crossroads Tavern was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

• 1889

  Daniel B. Landes bought the land at the public auction of the estate of Clifton Sutherland.

• 1820

  Crossroads Tavern was built about 1820 in North Garden, Albemarle County, Virginia.

• In the mid nineteenth century, Clifton G. Sutherland, son of Joseph Sutherland, owned and ran the tavern on the Staunton and James River Turnpike.

Historic nineteenth-century inn and tavern, now a bed and breakfast and a listed heritage property.

• Tavern services

• Overnight lodging

• Bed and breakfast accommodation

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