{"nrhp_refnum":"95001350","name":"Wallace-Baily Tavern","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 40, 1.5 mi. W of Brier Hill, Redstone Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brier Hill","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":39.99332822500003,"lon":-79.85125582299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-11-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-bay, single-pile, two-and-a-half story rubblestone tavern on the north side of U.S. Route 40, about one-and-a-half miles west of Brier Hill in Redstone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built with a central hall plan and a frame kitchen ell, and the walls were laid up c. 1840.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the tavern is significant for its association with the early nineteenth-century commercial development of the National Road and for its vernacular Greek Revival architecture. It states that the building retains enough integrity to be identifiable as a tavern through its form, floor plan, and interior woodwork, and it is one of two extant taverns identified in Redstone Township in a 1987 survey.","narrative":"Built around 1840 of rubblestone and set about fifty-five feet back from U.S. Route 40 west of Brier Hill, this three-bay, two-and-a-half story tavern follows a central hall plan with a frame kitchen ell to the west. Its double-stacked portico, sidelights and transoms of red glass, and low-pitched roof show the vernacular Greek Revival style. Inside, the splayed parlor windows, molded door surrounds, and open stair retain much of their original woodwork. The kitchen ell is divided into two rooms with separate fireplaces and a back stair, a feature typical of National Road taverns. Its association with the road's early commercial traffic and the tenure of tavern keepers Isaac Baily and Arthur Wallace gives it historical weight. Among the surviving taverns of the early National Road era, it is regarded as an intact example of the type, despite later window and kitchen replacements.","period_of_significance":"C. 1840 -C. 1855","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.028669-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/95001350.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001350/d469d57ce7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001350/d469d57ce7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallace-Baily_Tavern.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic1139</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallace-Baily_Tavern.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992914","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace-Baily_Tavern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7962719"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/wallace-baily-tavern-95001350/"}