The Salem Cross Inn is a restaurant on a working farm at 260 West Main Street (
Massachusetts Route 9
Route 9 is a major east–west state highway in Massachusetts, United States. Along with U.S. Route 20 (US 20), Route 2, and Interstate 90, Route 9 is one of the major east–west routes of Massachusetts. The western terminus is near th ...
) in
West Brookfield, Massachusetts
West Brookfield is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,833 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Lucy Stone was born in West Brookfield, and George Merriam, Ge ...
. It is located in the White Homestead, a c. 1740
Georgian style
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house built on the site of a c. 1707 house which now stands elsewhere on the property.
The property has been listed twice on the
National Register of Historic Places
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, in 1975 and 1978.
Description and history
The Salem Cross Inn is located on in western West Brookfield, on the south side of West Main Street. The main building is a large connected New England farmstead, consisting of a handsome Georgian-style main house, and a series of ells extending behind it to a barn. The main house is a two-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and stone foundation. The interior spaces retain original flooring and woodwork, and substantial portions of its original plasterwork. A short way west of the main building stands the original White Homestead, now converted to a carriage barn.
[
The property was granted to John White, the grandson of the ''Mayflower''-born ]Peregrine White
Peregrine White ( ) was the first boy born on the Pilgrim ship the ''Mayflower'' in the harbour of Massachusetts, the second baby born on the ''Mayflower''s historic voyage, and the first known English child born to the Pilgrims in America. ...
. in 1707 for service to the town during recent conflicts with Native Americans. Soon thereafter he built the original homestead. In 1710 he was killed in a Native American attack, one of the last to occur in the area. The main house and barn were built in 1740 by his sons, John and Cornelius White. Prominent later residents of the house include the missionary sisters Sarah White Smith and Adeline White Tracy, who performed religious missionary work in the Oregon Country
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and in Singapore
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, respectively.[
]
See also
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References
External links
Salem Cross Inn web site
{{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Georgian architecture in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures completed in 1707
West Brookfield, Massachusetts
1707 establishments in the Province of Massachusetts Bay