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Old Stone Inn may be oldest building in the city (Pittsburgh)

1793 accounts ledger indicates 1756 date on cornerstone may be accurate.

Pittsburgh's Historic Review Commission is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to recommend historic status for the Old Stone Inn, a West End landmark at 434 Greentree Road. If the inn is as old as growing evidence indicates, it may be older than the nation, even older than Pittsburgh.

No historic nomination in recent memory has led to such depths of discovery. Researchers have become giddy as they've uncovered the inn's story, which includes at least a peripheral role in the Whiskey Rebellion.

The inn's cornerstone date of 1756 has always been puzzling to historians, who thought it apocryphal.



Art Merrell, a West End resident who last year tried to interest investors in buying and restoring the building to be a tourist attraction, said it resembles buildings found in French-speaking Quebec. He contends early French settlers could have built it.

Read entire article at Pittsburgh Post Gazette