Other Structures Henry Ford brought into the estate
Walker Garrison House
1892 photos:
Wayside Country Store (old Parmenter-Garfield general store)
The Wayside Country Store was built in 1790 and stood in the center of Sudbury, where it was used as a post office, general store and school. On the second floor was a grand ballroom. Henry Ford purchased this building in 1928 and moved it from Sudbury Center by oxen to its present site on Hager Pond (just over the Sudbury border in Marlborough). It has been in continuous operation since. The store’s interior is still much the same as when Henry Ford ran it. It was the first country store in the United States to be re-established and restored. A dam located at one end of the pond accounts for the store’s logo, “BEST COUNTRY STORE BY A DAM SITE.” The property was sold to Swenson Family and the deed includes a provision it shall always remain a country store.
Detailed MA Historical Commission Report Here:
Howe-Gregory House, 1938 HABS
Plimpton Carr House, 1932 photo
Parmenter House, 1932 photo
Parmenter – Hager House, photo 1932 moved from [Marlborough in 1936]
Currently for sale, Feb 2010, $850,000.
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