Wilbur's Hotel and Violas Store

The red building opposite Goodale Road is one of Cheshire's oldest commercial structures. It was built around 1880 by Cyrus Wilbur, a standout among Cheshire's 19th century entrepreneurs. This was one of several buildings Wilbur packed onto the site, where he operated a hotel and tavern, a grocery store, and a farm commodities brokerage business. In addition, when the current Cheshire Community Church was built in 1870, he bought the old church and had it moved to the site for a meeting and entertainment hall, renamed Lincoln Hall after the fallen president. In the middle decades of the 20th century, C.P. and Adeline Violas ran an IGA store and Texaco station from the existing building and a neighboring one.