Golden Ball Tavern

Built in 1768 on Boston Post Road in Weston, Massachusetts, the Golden Ball Tavern was established by Captain Isaac Jones and became entwined with the political strains of colonial New England. A Loyalist in the years before the American Revolution, Jones sheltered British soldiers sent by General Thomas Gage in 1774, and local Patriots later raided the tavern during the Weston Tea Party, wrongly suspecting him of serving taxed tea. The tavern thrived until travel shifted to the Worcester Turnpike, closing around 1805 and then serving as a Jones family home for six generations. Restored as a museum, it preserves notable Late Georgian architecture and a complex Revolutionary-era history.

Weston, Massachusetts · United States