Buckman Tavern

1920’s Post Card (below) Middle building is the Buckman Tavern (large building on right is meeting house which no longer exists). Reproduction of 1875 etching by Hammett Billings.

1890

buckman tavern 1890

1896

1910

1911

1929 (from Boston Public Library digital collection)

1929 Buckman Tavern BPL

1920

buckman tavern 1920

1941 HABS Photo Set

buckman tavern habs1941-1

buckman tavern habs 1941-2

buckman tavern habs 1941-3

buckman tavern habs 1941-4

1946 postmark

buckman tavern 1946 postmark

1950’s

Buckman Tavern 1950s

1958

Buckman Tavern 1958

1975

1975 Buckman tavern

2006

buckman tavern 500

Picture24 copy

Kitchen (to be dated 1920-1940’s)

1963 Kitchen

2006 Kitchen

Buckman tavern living room

Buckman tavern living room2

Buckman tavern taproom 500

buckman tavern 3

buckman tavern 4

buckman tavern bedroom

buckman tavern bedroom2

buckman tavern 2

buckman-topper

buckman tavern in winter

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Tavern Pages
- Taverns
"The days are short, the weather's cold, By tavern fires, tales are told. Some ask for dram when first come in, others with flip and bounce begin." New England Almanac, 1704

“Where dozed a fire of beechen logs that bred Strange fancies in its embers golden dred, And nursed the loggerhead, whose hissing dip, timed by wise instinct, creamed the bowl of flip” Jame Lowell, 1868

"The gods who are most interested in the human race preside over the tavern...The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavern is where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad." Thoreau

"Wheoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sign to think he still has found the warmest welcome at an inn." Shenstone

"Along the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife, In morn or at noon, by night or day, How oft doth man by care oppressed Find at an inn a place of rest!" Combe

"What do you think Here is good drink. Perhaps you may not know it; If not in haste, do stop and taste, You merry folks will show it." Molineaux, 1774

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