Hopestill Bent Tavern

	Hopestill Bent Tavern
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Hopestill Bent Tavern
Location	252 Old Connecticut Path,; Wayland, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°20′30″N 71°22′14″W / 42.34167°N 71.37056°W
Built	1710
Architectural style	Colonial
MPS	First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference No.	90000188
Added to NRHP	March 9, 1990

The Hopestill Bent Tavern is a historic First Period tavern (now a private residence) in Wayland, Massachusetts, United States. The oldest portion of this 2+1⁄2-story building was built on this site c. 1710, and consisted of two rooms with a central chimney. Around 1800 a second First Period structure was moved to the site and attached to the first, giving the building most of its present form. The building is also unusual for the period in that some of its rooms have no fireplace, and that the upstairs exhibits evidence of significant reuse of older building materials, a practice that was generally restricted to the attic or basement. The building exhibits modest Federal styling, in keeping with the c. 1800 alterations.

Its builder and first proprietor was Hopestill Bent (1672–1725).^[2] Hopestill Bent fought in King William's War (one of the French and Indian Wars). Hopestill Bent was the great-grandfather of Silas Bent Jr. and great-great-grandfather of Charles Bent, the trader and first territorial Governor of New Mexico during the Mexican-American War^[3]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1]