Seipsville Hotel
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Seipsville Hotel, also known as Seip's Hotel, Seip's Tavern, and Seipsville Rib House, is a historic inn
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 and tavern
Tavern
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 located at Palmer Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Northampton County, Pennsylvania
As of the 2010 census, the county was 86.3% White, 5.0% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American or Alaskan Native, 2.4% Asian, 0.0% Native Hawaiian, 2.2% were two or more races, and 3.8% were some other race. 10.5% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.As of the census of...

. It was built in 1760, and is a 2 1/2 story, 4 bay fieldstone
Fieldstone
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 building with an adjoining 1 1/2-story spring house
Spring house
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. It has a gable roof with two gable end brick chimneys. In addition to being an inn and tavern, the building as house a post office
Post office
A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...

, polling place, and community meeting center. It is now operated as a bed and breakfast
Bed and breakfast
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 known as the Seipsville Inn.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1977.
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