The Inn at Yellow Springs
(now The Washington Wedding Hall)
Site 2
The Inn at Yellow Springs (Now The Washington at Historic Yellow Springs) has played a central role in each period of our history. In 1750, Robert Prichard applied for a license to operate “a house of entertainment” to serve the “great Concourse of People” who traveled the recently opened public roads to Yellow Springs for the mineral waters cures or on other business. The east wing of the Inn today is believed to contain at least part of the 18th Century inn, which provided temporary headquarters for General Washington the night of September 16-17, 1777. Note the combination of two distinct styles of architecture, the result of a series of expansions and a fire in 1876. The dramatic perspective of Virginia McCall’s painting focuses on the Federal-style door, with its beautiful fanlight and delicate tracery McCall, a student at the Chester Springs School in 1930-1931, received the highest honors for her humanitarian work making surgical drawings and life masks of plastic surgery cases at Valley Forge Army Hospital during World War II and the Korean War.
Return to the Lincoln Building and follow the long walkway up the hillside to the Revolutionary War Hospital ruins and the 18th century Medicinal Herb Garden.
