1880 Wayside Inn
Wayside Inn, from the West on the Post Road
“Drive with [James] Fields to the old Red Horse Tavern in Sudbury — alas ! no longer an inn ! A lovely valley, the winding road shaded by grand old oaks before the house. A rambling, tumble-down old building, two hundred years old.” Longfellow, 1862
Edward R. Lemon owned the Inn from 1897-1919 (1919 is when he died, his wife Cora owned it until 1923 and sold it to Henry Ford). During this time, he moved the wood shed and made what is now called the Ford Room. He added the dormers and added the porch. If the Inn had the front porch by 1902 (see sale image below), the photos that follow without the porch (suggesting pre-1900) were probably purchased and stored until used later (postmarks of 1905-1907).
Wayside Inn 1890
1897
Wayside Inn 1880’s
Wayside Inn circa 1900
1901 Wayside Inn
1902 Ad by E.R. Lemon, Countrylife in America Magazine (he did not sell)
1904 postmark
1904 postmark
1905 postmark Wayside Inn
1918+Wayside Inn
