Gwendolynn's Salon & Spa
Est. 1992
Welcome to Gwendolynn's Salon & Spa, where we make you feel more beautiful. Our classic full-service salon offers traditional beauty services, while our spa products and services are designed to promote your health and well-being. Our friendly and relaxing atmosphere is the perfect place to pamper yourself. For over three decades, our staff has strived for excellence in addressing our clients' beauty and health needs. Come visit us and experience the Gwendolynn's difference.
The Four Maples Inn at 628 West Ridge Pike, owned and operated since 1950 by Rufus and Emily
Prostovitch and noted for its excellent “Crab Imperial” was not always a fine restaurant. As a
farmhouse, it had many owners through the years. And now is Gwendolynn's Salon and Spa.
No date can be set for the original deed, but records show the buildings and farm property,
originally 303 acres, were involved in a High Sheriff’s Sale in 1786.
In 1827 the heirs of John Hildebidle sold it to George Beltz. The property was owned by Sarah and Samuel Grubb in 1838 and sold in 1868 to Storekeeper Nathan Brant and his wife Catherine. H Horning and his wife Elizabeth owned and operated a store there in 1871, according to a Montgomery County Atlas.
In 1898 Dr. Benjamin Dismant, who lived next door, bought the property from widow Horning.
Dr. Dismant died in 1910 and two years later his widow Mary sold it to Dr. Graber.
Glenn Borneman Sr., who lives across the pike at 605 West Ridge Pike, recalls both doctors.
made house calls in horses and buggy and that Dr. Dismant had the finer horses. As a young boy,
Borneman helped pile hay in the barn which was at the rear of the house.
Richard and Mary Roesler owned the property in 1920, and their son Gordon was born in 1920,
while they were living there.
The Roesler’s sold it to August and Hannah Wheeler of Pottstown in 1922.
Louis and Hedwig Neron purchased the property from the Wheelers in 1929 and for the first
time in its long history, meals were served to the pubic in the house. Meantime, the Wheelers had
moved across the pike. The bank held the property, and it reverted once again to the Wheelers.
Another sale to Ernst and Thea Rubrecht in 1932 failed and again the Wheelers found themselves.
owners. Both Neron and Rubrecht served meals in the building, but no mention is made of a bar.
license.
In 1935 Helen Adamski married Stanley, son of Gus and Hannah Wheeler. She recalls a
large room on the third floor, where jukebox dances were held. The jukebox was later moved.
downstairs where Gus operated a bar and served food. The Wheelers lived across the pike at that.
time and probably rented rooms at the inn to guests. After Gus Wheeler died, his daughter Helen and her husband James Maquire operated a bar until they sold the property to Sam Chiccarine in 1948.
Chiccarine sold the property to Rufus and Emily Prostovitch in 1950 and went on to the Perkiomen Bridge Hotel. The four towering maple trees in front of the property, which gave the inn its name, were sacrificed to progress when Ridge Pike was widened during the 1950’s.
(Sourced from Limerick Historical Society)
In 2002 The Four Maples Inn became the home of Gwendolynn’s Salon and Spa.