A HISTORIC TREASURE

The Coach Sports Bar is located at the site of the original Spears Tavern. James Spears opened his business at 19 West Main Street in 1812. There were two dining rooms and ten guest rooms for stagecoach passengers and other visitors to North Penfield, as Webster was then called. In 1849 Alexis Russel ran like the Webster hotel, her competition. When the boarding house closed, the west end of the building was rented to Dr. James E. Smith, who in 1893 became Webster's first resident veterinarian. Since then, many people have owned and operated the building at 19 West Main Street. Charles Steve reopened the hotel in 1904. Mae DeField operated the DeField Hotel for many years at the same location. In 1936 the Stage Coach Inn Opened under the ownership of Mr. And Mrs. McGuire and subsequently went through many owners until Anthony Stolt bought the property in 1950. Mr. Stolt operated the inn even through a devastating fire on February 16. 1969, when the building was completely razed. The structure as it is today opened in September of 1969. In December 1983, four local businessmen bought The Coach. Charles Basch, John Harten, Ralph Ruoff, and Richard Sippel operated the restaurant with Larry Panepinto until November 16th, 1988 when the doors again closed. Marti Sierk reopened the building in 1990 as the Webster Village Inn, a formal restaurant and bar. She later decided the village needed a more casual atmos- phere and renovated the inside to make it that way. In 1991 she reestablished the business as the Coach, a reflection of the past existence as the Stage Coach Inn. The Sierk family has operated it ever since.