Colonel Richard Somers Homestead & Tavern

Colonel Richard Somers Homestead & Tavern
599 Shore Rd.
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The left-hand side of this office structure was built circa 1770 and was originally the homestead and tavern of Colonel Richard Somers. It is connected to a newer unrelated section of this office structure by a glass atrium.

Colonel Richard Somers and his wife Sophia had a son, also named Richard, who was born here during the Revolutionary War in 1778. He went on to become a famous Navy Commandant; he died in 1804 at the Battle of Tripoli during the First Barbary War. [3]