{"id":286,"date":"2009-05-25T06:39:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T06:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2012-08-27T21:16:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T01:16:30","slug":"wright-tavern-1747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Wright Tavern (1747)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wright Tavern<\/a>, on Lexington Road in Concord, was built in 1747 by Ephraim Jones<\/a>, who operated it until 1751. Standing in the center of town, it was a popular gathering place for Concord’s leading citizens. For five days in October 1774, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress<\/a> met in the First Parish Church<\/a>, next door, and the committees of the Congress met in the Tavern<\/a>. In 1775<\/a>, the Tavern<\/a> was managed by Amos Wright<\/a>. On the morning of the Battle of April 19<\/a>, the Concord minutemen assembled at the Tavern<\/a>. Later that day, the British force, under Maj. John Pitcairn<\/a>, arrived and the British officers were served at the Tavern<\/a>. The First Parish Unitarian Church of Concord<\/a> now owns the building<\/a>, which, since 1997<\/a>, has been the Wright Tavern Center for Spiritual Renewal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wright Tavern, on Lexington Road in Concord, was built in 1747 by Ephraim Jones, who operated it until 1751. Standing in the center of town, it was a popular gathering place for Concord’s leading citizens. For five days in October 1774, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress met in the First Parish Church, next door, and the committees of the Congress met in the Tavern. In 1775, the Tavern was managed by Amos Wright. On the morning of the Battle of April 19, the Concord minutemen assembled at the Tavern. Later that day, the British force, under Maj. John Pitcairn, arrived and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,33,110],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-concord","category-taverns","tag-revolutionary-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/4683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}