Salem Tavern
Historic building in North Carolina, US in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Built 1784. Added to the National Register in 1966, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
Salem Tavern is a historic museum property at 800 South Main Street in the Old Salem Historic District in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was a tavern in the 18th-century town of Salem, which is now part of Winston-Salem. The tavern is owned by Old Salem Museums & Gardens and open as an Old Salem tour building to visitors. Built in 1784 and enlarged in 1815, it was the first entirely brick building in what is now Old Salem, and is one of the oldest surviving brick tavern buildings in the United States. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.
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The record
| Property type | Building |
| Address | 800 S. Main St., Winston-Salem, NC |
| County | Forsyth County |
| Listed | Oct 15, 1966 |
| Reference number | 66000592 |
| Built | 1784 |
| Type of place | tavern |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
| Contributing resources | 1 buildings |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | 800 S. Main St., Winston-Salem, NC |
| Coordinates | 36.08549, -80.24183 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | Guilford Courthouse National Military Park · 23 mi · on Park Atlas |
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Sources
Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 66000592. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.