Keeler Tavern
- Also Known As: Benjamin Hoyt House also Ridgefield Hotel also Cannonball House
- Address: 132 Main St
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1717/00/00 | Benjamin Hoyt builds a home for himself and his family. | |||||
1769/00/00 | Benjamin Hoyt's grandson, Timothy Keeler, buys the residence his uncle David. Timothy Keeler and his wife Ester converted the building into an inn in 1772. | |||||
1777/04/27 | Believing Patriots made musket balls in the basement, British forces fire canons on Keeler's tavern. One of the cannonballs lodged itself into a corner post of the building where it has remained ever since. | Battle of Ridgefield | ||||
1804/00/00 | Jerome Bonaparte | Groom | Elizabeth Patterson and her husband Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon, stay at Keeler Tavern during their honeymoon. | |||
1907/00/00 | Cass Gilbert | Home, Architect | Cass Gilbert buys the inn and converts it into his family's summer home, making improvements and additions to the building. Circa 1910, he designed a Garden House and added a "Charleston Garden". |
Particulars for Keeler Tavern: | |
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Architectural Style | American Colonial Revival |
Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Physiographic feature | Forest |
Architectural Style | Georgian Architecture |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Historic Use | Hotel |
Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
Area of Significance | Military |
Criteria | Person |
Historic Use | Post Office |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Secondary structure |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
Area of Significance | Transportation |
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