132 South Main Street

Built 1824-1825 and known as Smith Jay's Tavern. An excellent example of local Federal style and the last known remaining tavern building in Pennington. Note clapboard siding, center door with unusual gothic arch transom, 2nd floor windows of six over six panes and 1st floor windows of nine over six.

If you have time, continue south on Main Street to Curlis Avenue. Most noteworthy is the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church on the west side of Main Street. This congregation, the third oldest in Pennington, organized in 1816. Its church building, circa 1875, is an excellent example of simple Gothic Revival style and serves as the focal point of a historically important grouping of vernacular Federal and Homestead style buildings, some dating to the early l800s.

Let's be careful crossing Main Street and turn left, heading north.