Allstadt House and Ordinary

Infobox_nrhp | name =Allstadt House and Ordinary
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nearest_city= Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
lat_degrees = 39
lat_minutes = 18
lat_seconds = 55
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 77
long_minutes = 46
long_seconds = 23
long_direction = W
locmapin = West Virginia
area =
built =1790
architect= Allstadt,Jacob; Et al.
architecture= No Style Listed
added = April 09, 1985cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=85000767The Allstadt House and Ordinary was built about 1790 on land owned by the Lee family near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, including Phillip Ludwell Lee, Richard Bland Lee and Henry Lee. The house at the crossroads was sold to the Jacob Allstadt family of Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1811. Allstadt operated an ordinary, or tavern in the house, and a tollgate on the Harpers Ferry-Charles Town Turnpike, while he resided farther down the road in a stone house. The house was enlarged by the Allstadts "circa" 1830.

The house's chief historic significance came in 1859, when Joohn Brown launched his raid on Harpers Ferry. Brown ordered a detachment of his forces to go to Beall-Air and take hostage the owner, Colonel Lewis Washington and three of his slaves. On their return to Harpers Ferry with Washington the party stopped at Allstadt's and took Allstadt, his son John Thomas and seven slaves prisoner. All survived the seige and liberation. citation|title=PDFlink| [http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/jefferson/85000767.pdf National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Allstadt House and Ordinary] |1.10 MB|date=July, 1984 |author=Frances D. Ruth|publisher=National Park Service]

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