OpenRoad Brewery

The original building on the property, destroyed in the 1902 fire, was built in 1865 by W. H. White. It had a large, open hall on the second floor known at different times as either White’s
Hall or the Wayland Opera House, and served as a gathering place for dances and other entertainments. Lee Deuel, an active businessman in the community acquired the property, and after some delay announced in the April 22, 1905, Wayland Globe, that he would erect a large, two-story building with a lodge for the I.O.O.F. on the second floor. The building was to be 29.5-feet-by-60 feet with a full-size basement. The first-floor store later housed Weaver Hardware, then Hooker Hardware, for many years. (A May 14, 1904, Wayland Saturday Globe
story reported that the front stone wall of the basement had been built to accommodate new sidewalk construction.)

Adjoining the building on the south, now 132 South Main on the first floor, but connected on the second, was another new building built by John C. Yeakey. At the time of the fire, the property was owned by C.H. Brush, but he was in business with Yeakey and Burlington, who also owned the property to the south and had just built the double storefront at 142 South Main. All three buildings, 128, 132, and 142 South Main shared access via the second floor, which still exists.

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