Widow Piper's Tavern Explained

Widow Piper's Tavern
Location:	SW corner of King and Queen Sts., Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:	40.0544°N -77.5133°W
Built:	c. 1735
Added:	January 17, 1974
Area:	less than one acre
Refnum:	74001779

Widow Piper's Tavern, also known as the Old Courthouse and Shippensburg Civic Center, is a historic inn and tavern located at Shippensburg in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1735, and is a 2 1/2-story, irregular stone building with a 1-story kitchen wing. It housed the First Court of General Sessions of the Peace from July 1750 to April 1751. The building was donated to the Civic Club of Shippensburg in the 1930s.^[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is located in the Shippensburg Historic District.

External links

• Civic Club of Shippensburg website

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. January 21, 2012. July 21, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp. dead. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H001164_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Widow Piper's Tavern]. 2012-01-21. Harvey Freedenberg. PDF. July 1973.