Walker Tavern - Cambridge Junction, Michigan
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N 42° 03.585 W 084° 13.323
16T E 729857 N 4660144
The Walker Tavern is an old stage coach stop along the Old Sauk Trail.
Waymark Code: WM8D22
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 03/14/2010
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The state of Michigan Historic Preservation website at (
visit link) tells us:
"Walker Tavern is a two-story Federal, frame building covered in white wood siding, standing on a cut fieldstone foundation. The side-gable roof has a long lean-to-like rear slope that makes the rear eaves several feet lower than the front eaves. Cedar shingles top the low pitched roof, with its box cornice and returns. Fronting US-12, the five-bay center-entrance facade has a simple entablature and pilasters, a Federal entrance, and large twelve-over-eight windows.
The Walker Tavern was a social and civic center for a burgeoning intersection along the primary trade and settlement routes into Michigan; the Detroit-Chicago route and the road from Monroe. The tavern was originally built as a farmhouse circa 1832 but converted to a tavern and inn by Sylvester S. and Lucy Walker in 1843. Several alterations were made to the building during a 1965 restoration and conversion into a museum at the Cambridge State Historical Park by the State of Michigan, Walker Tavern's current owner."