Dexter’s Brewster Inn in spotlight on ‘If Walls Could Talk’

DEXTER – The Brewster Inn will be featured on “If Walls Could Talk,” an HGTV show, at 5 p.m. Monday, June 16.

A film crew from High Noon Entertainment in Denver, Colo., spent a day in October 2007 filming the inn and its owners, Judith and Mark Stephens.

The Stephenses are excited about the publicity the show will give their business and the town.

“I’m excited about it,” Mark Stephens said Monday. “I think it’s good for the Brewster Inn, but it’s also good for Dexter because it’s going to make people look on the Internet or a map to see where Dexter is, especially when they know what kind of history is within this house.”

The film will focus on the history of the home constructed in 1875 for the Brewster family and its artifacts that include a treasure trove of historic gems that hark back to the days when U.S. Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster and his wife owned the Dexter property.

Just days before the filming, Judith Stephens discovered 18 boxes of metal address plates in a cubbyhole in a room believed to have been Brewster’s office, now the inn’s Honeymoon Suite. The plates, which apparently were used for mailing purposes, included the names of judges and the names of people who could have been his supporters.

“The history of this house is so incredible, and then there are the finds,” Lori Allred, HGTV’s field producer, said the day of the filming. “They have an enormous amount of finds and a lot of documentation.”

Stephens said an open house would be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 13, at the inn.

Those wishing to attend the open house are requested to call 924-3130 to reserve a time for a tour.

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