Over the years, The Inn Between grew from one housing building to six with a total of 89 units. It was formed under parent agency Family Extension, before gaining 501(c)(3) status in 1999. The nonprofit has served Longmont since its establishment in 1993. Vrain Valley through affordable housing and support services. It remained a private residence afterward, and in 1987, came under the protection of the National Park Service.Longmont’s The Inn Between provides stability to individuals and families facing homelessness in the St. When a fire badly damaged the home in 1836, Frost had it rebuilt in the Greek Revival style-a very popular architectural mode of the period.įrost died in 1865, but the home stayed in his family into the 1920s. Frost used the home to launch his own successful bolt-making enterprise (which lasted into the 20th century). Frost.įrost, a blacksmith who specialized in shoeing oxen and selling farming supplies, eventually purchased the home in 1820. Philo leased the house to bolt manufacturing pioneers Micah Rugg and Levi B. Philo was a prosperous land owner whose son, Seth, raced West in search of gold in the 1840s (ultimately dying in a prison camp in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1863) and whose grandson, Edwin, went on to become general manager of the nearby Clark Brothers Bolt Company. From Inn to Site of Manufacturing InnovationĪsa Barns lived in the house until his death in 1819. The following year, on his victorious march from Yorktown, Virginia, back to Rhode Island where he’d first landed, Rochambeau returned to Barnes Tavern on October 27th. Rochambeau used the tavern as his headquarters for 4 days while his troops camped across the street. On his way to meet George Washington in North Castle, New York, the French general Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, arrived at what is now “French Hill” near Barns’s tavern on June 26, 1781. Photograph circa 1935-1942 – Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 033:28, WPA Records Among these guests was a famous French general who played a vital role in helping the colonies during the Revolutionary War.Īsa Barnes Tavern, Southington. Known as the Barnes Tavern (the “e” in Barnes first appearing in land records in 1825), the inn hosted numerous weary travelers who braved the crude and rocky Connecticut roads. Revolutionary War Hero Among Barnes Tavern GuestsĪround 1765, Asa Barns began operating a tavern out of his home on the Marion road-a thoroughfare important for connecting Bristol to New Haven. Appearing twice on the National Register of Historic Places, once as an individual structure and once as a part of the Marion Historic District, the home is significant both architecturally and historically for the insight it provides into early New England history. Frost House (or the Asa Barnes Tavern), the home represents over two centuries of Southington history. On Marion Avenue in the southwest corner of Southington sits a white clapboard, two-story house decorated in the Greek Revival style.
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