Warren Tavern Complex

Along U.S. Route 36 near Delaware, Ohio, a brick tavern known locally as the "Dutch Tavern" anchors a surviving rural complex on land once part of a 4,000-acre military tract deeded to Jonathen Dayton around 1799-1800. The tavern, built before 1845, is a 1½-story common bond brick building on a rubble foundation. Its distinctive feature is a stepped gable on the end-facing facade, a layout not found in other documented taverns in the county, along with a corbeled brick cornice that returns onto the front. Inside, original plank floors, woodwork, iron latches and hinges, fireplaces and stenciled walls remain. Nearby are a springhouse, an altered log and horse barn, a granary, a buggy shed, an orchard and the depression of an old ice pond. The property was listed for its architecture and for its links to prominent county landholding families, including the McLures, Warrens, Bevans, Owens and Snooks, known for their farming success.