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Cobb's Tavern

Coordinates: 42°8′14″N 71°8′58″W / 42.13722°N 71.14944°W / 42.13722; -71.14944
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Cobb's Tavern
Cobb's Tavern is located in Massachusetts
Cobb's Tavern
Cobb's Tavern is located in the United States
Cobb's Tavern
Location41 Bay Road,
Sharon, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°8′14″N 71°8′58″W / 42.13722°N 71.14944°W / 42.13722; -71.14944
Built1740
Architectural styleColonial
NRHP reference No.74000383[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 7, 1974

Cobb's Tavern is a historic colonial tavern building in Sharon, Massachusetts. It is a 2+12-story wood-frame building, with brick end walls, a central chimney, and a pair of chimneys near the left wall. A single-story porch extends across the building's rightmost five bays. The original part of the house was built c. 1740, and is known to have served as a tavern for most of the 19th century. It also housed the East Sharon Post Office between 1817 and 1895.[2] It is now a private residence and the home of Jessica stanford, as well as jeffrey Stanford.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Cobb's Tavern". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-05.