{"nrhp_refnum":"73000301","name":"Hoar Tavern","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Lincoln on MA 2","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lincoln","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.43569138000004,"lon":-71.27670981499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-07-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-acre tavern property on the old Cambridge Turnpike (now Route 2) in Lincoln, Massachusetts, with a house, ell, large barn and an outbuilding. Parts of the house and barn date from the first quarter of the eighteenth century, and the house may be partly as early as the 1680s.","why_significant":"The property was a well-known local tavern in Revolutionary times and served men returning from the Concord Bridge skirmish of April 19, 1775. It was the home of the Hoar family, prominent in Lincoln, for almost two hundred years. Its location on the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike, with a toll station nearby, adds a transportation connection, and the house shows layered remodelling and a massive timber barn.","narrative":"Hoar Tavern is a farmstead-scale property of about two acres beside the old Cambridge Turnpike, now Route 2, in Lincoln, Massachusetts. It includes a two-and-a-half-story, five-bay clapboard house with a central chimney, an attached ell, a large barn and an outbuilding. Parts of the house and barn date from the early eighteenth century, and the house may be partly as old as the 1680s. Later changes include a Greek Revival remodelling, a mid-nineteenth-century porch and a 1913 renovation. Inside, white oak corner posts and beams and eighteenth-century panelling survive. The property matters for its Revolutionary War connection: John Hoar operated a tavern here that served men returning from the Concord Bridge skirmish on April 19, 1775. The Hoar family, active in town affairs and later turnpike promotion, lived here for almost two hundred years. A toll station of the 1807 turnpike stood near the tavern. Joseph Hoar was the last family member to run it, and his heirs sold the property in 1869.","period_of_significance":"17th–20th centuries; specific dates 1680-1700, 1775, 1913","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"New England vernacular with Greek Revival remodelling and neo-colonial 1913 alterations","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and occupied, though altered; plans called for public acquisition by the town and restoration as a tavern. It was threatened by a proposed widening of Route 2.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.215773-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/55/7958/63795855/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/73000301.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000301/156b271c42-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000301/156b271c42-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_view_of_the_Hoar_Homestead,_Lincoln_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_view_of_the_Hoar_Homestead,_Lincoln_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795855","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoar_Tavern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5874522"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/hoar-tavern-73000301/"}