{"id":4720,"date":"2012-09-01T00:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T04:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2012-09-01T00:17:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T04:17:45","slug":"sackett-tavern-1776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4720","title":{"rendered":"Sackett Tavern (1776)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At 1259 Western Avenue in Westfield is Sackett’s Tavern<\/a>, a landmark of Connecticut River Valley Georgian architecture. It was built around 1776 for Stephen Sackett<\/a>, who ran the tavern<\/a>. In 1800 it was sold to Titus Atwater, who operated a posting house, and it remained in the Atwater family until 1900 until it was purchased at auction by Mathew Pitoniak<\/a>. For a time it was known as the Washington Tavern<\/a> because it was believed George Washington had slept there. Left vacant for a time, the tavern<\/a> was purchased and restored by Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fuller in 1962. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At 1259 Western Avenue in Westfield is Sackett’s Tavern, a landmark of Connecticut River Valley Georgian architecture. It was built around 1776 for Stephen Sackett, who ran the tavern. In 1800 it was sold to Titus Atwater, who operated a posting house, and it remained in the Atwater family until 1900 until it was purchased at auction by Mathew Pitoniak. For a time it was known as the Washington Tavern because it was believed George Washington had slept there. Left vacant for a time, the tavern was purchased and restored by Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fuller in 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,110,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-taverns","category-westfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720","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=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4728,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions\/4728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}