David's Country Inn (The Warren House)

The frame building at 314 Main Street in Hackettstown — Main Street here is also Route 46 — was built in 1840. For most of its life it was not David’s Country Inn but The Warren House, named for General Joseph Warren, the physician who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 — the same man for whom Warren County is named.

By the inn’s own account, the site began earlier still: a log structure raised in 1787 that served as a stagecoach stop in the town’s early days. The 1840 frame building succeeded it on the same ground and carried on as an inn, with twenty-four guest rooms, two parlors, a bar, and a dining room — running as an inn, by that account, for roughly 152 years.

In its lines the building reads as Greek Revival: a full-width, two-story colonnade of square columns, a low roof, and a band of small frieze windows below the cornice.

In the spring of 1978, Louis J. Falzarano, Jr. and his wife Theodora bought the neglected property and reopened it as David’s Country Inn — the name, by the family’s account, from Louis’s mother, whose maiden name was Davide. Louis died in 2009; his children Christopher and Jordan run the inn with their mother today.