1250 Lancaster Ave, Berwyn, PA 19312

Historic Blue Ball Tavern. Describing the inn in 1952, as it was being remodeled for use as a private home, Patterson said the house boasted five fireplaces, all with original mantels, original wooden floors and a Dutch door from the living room to the porch that featured “a cross to keep out witches, small animals and urchins. Of the five fireplaces, a first-floor one is so wide and deep one can literally sit in ‘the chimney corner.’ Blackened by the smoke of two centuries, the huge fireplace still has in it the old hand-forged crane, and the ‘lazy boy’ on which many kinds of food were baked. It is a matter of tradition that when this room was the kitchen for the old Inn, the backlog for the cooking fire was dragged in at one door by a horse, which was driven out the opposite door after the log had been rolled to the fireplace.”