The Stage House Inn is located in Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey, United States. The inn was built in 1737 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1982. Through its history, the inn has also been known as Ye Olde Historical Inn, the Stanbury Inn, Ye Olde Tavern, the W.L. Deegans Hotel, Sutton's Tavern, and De Boud's Hotel. The inn sat prominently on the Old York Road, where it was a regular stop for

stagecoaches A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are draw ...

on the "Swift Sure Stage Line" between New York City and Philadelphia. It was a primary meeting place for troop messengers and officers during the Revolutionary War; in fact,

General Lafayette Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (, ), was a French aristocrat, freemason and military officer who fought in the American Revolutio ...

is known to have stopped at the inn while General

George Washington George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of th ...

was nearby. When President Abraham Lincoln called additional troops to defend the Union during the American Civil War, rallies were held in the Stage House Inn. The building is currently used as a part of the "Stage House Tavern," a restaurant and bar opened in 2003.

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Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey Commercial buildings completed in 1737 Buildings and structures in Union County, New Jersey Scotch Plains, New Jersey National Register of Historic Places in Union County, New Jersey New Jersey Register of Historic Places 1737 establishments in New Jersey {{NewJersey-NRHP-stub

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