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The Granville Historical Society Oral History Project 2001 - 2002
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11) The Granville Inn
Welsh Stonemasons Build the Granville Inn (Virginia Jones Olmsted) The Granville Inn was built in 1925. It was built out of the same beautiful sandstone quarried on the Bryn Du estate from which Bryn Du itself was built. I think there were four Welsh stonemasons, all by the name of Jones, and only the youngest son spoke English. All the rest of them all spoke Gaelic. They quarried each stone carefully, and each stone was hand chiseled and hand marked by these real artisans.
Orchestra and Dancing at the Granville Inn (Clark Morrow) The Granville Inn was just being built when I came to town in 1924. The stoneworkers from the old country had come over here to work on the Inn, and they would cut the stone on what is now the front lawn of the Inn. East College Street, where I lived, was right in back of the Granville Inn. They had a big wall between our house and the Inn so you couldn’t see, except when I’d go to bed at night I could lie on my bed and look out and watch them dancing in the great room of the Granville Inn. They had an orchestra and dancing every Saturday night. And then just to the east of the Granville Inn was the Sigma Chi house. Jerry Ackley, my good friend who lived next door, was a Sig. They had a tennis court right next to Granville Inn.
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