Stagecoach Inn

The Stagecoach Inn is a two-story Georgian structure now displayed at Shelburne Museum as a historical house museum. Inside, rooms contain furniture and household items from the late 1700s, showing how innkeepers and travelers lived during that era.

Major General Hezekiah Barnes built the inn in 1783 in Charlotte, positioning it along the main route connecting Montreal to southern New England. The building served as a crucial stop for travelers and coaches moving goods and people across the region.

The inn now displays an extensive collection of early American folk art, including trade signs, ship carvings, weathervanes, and decorative paintings.

The building sits within a large museum campus that offers multiple attractions to explore together. Plan to spend time wandering through the different rooms and getting a sense of how the space was used.

The entire structure was moved in 1949 from its original site in Charlotte to the Shelburne Museum grounds, where it stands today as an original building. This relocation allowed the house and its collections to be preserved together as a complete window into 18th-century travel and hospitality.

Location: Shelburne

GPS coordinates: 44.37730,-73.22980

Latest update: December 14, 2025 18:47