Carroll Jones House

Carroll and Bessie E. (Caul) Jones House
Location 170 W. Main St., Marcellus, Michigan
Coordinates 42°1′38″N 85°49′0″W / 42.02722°N 85.81667°W / 42.02722; -85.81667Coordinates: 42°1′38″N 85°49′0″W / 42.02722°N 85.81667°W / 42.02722; -85.81667
Area less than one acre
Built 1898 (1898)
Architect Alan Clother Varney
Architectural style Dutch Colonial Revival, Romanesque Revival
NRHP Reference # 97001482[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 1, 1997
Designated MSHS January 17, 1986[2]

The Carroll and Bessie E. (Caul) Jones House, also known as Poke's Cottage or The Stone House, is a private house located at 170 West Main Street in Marcellus, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1986[2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[1]

History

Carroll Sherman Jones was born in 1857, the son of Marcellus founder George Washington Jones and his wife Emma Brewster (whose nearby house is also on the National Register).[3] He went into his father's banking business, running the G.W. Jones Exchange Bank in Marcellus from its founding.[4] In 1891. Jones married Bessie E. Caul;[5] the couple had two children. The Jones house was constructed for the family between 1898 and 1900 from a design by the Detroit architectural firm of Alan Clother Varney.[2] Carroll Sherman Jones continued to work at the bank until his death in 1921.[4]

Description

The Carroll Jones House is a two-story structure with both Dutch Colonial Revival and Romanesque Revival elements.[2] It has a large gambrel roof clad in red slate with green slate on the gable ends, and a round conical-roof tower in the front facade. The first floor is faced with massive hand-cut fieldstone blocks and contains a round porch with Tuscan columns.[6] The interior is decorated in Arts and Crafts style, with quarter-sawn oak doors, trim, and cabinetry.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jones, Carroll Sherman and Bessie E., House". Michigan State Housing Development Authority: Historic Sites Online. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  3. ↑ Emma C. Brewster Jones, ed. (1908), The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907, Higginson Book Co., p. 639
  4. 1 2 "History". G.W. Jones Exchange Bank. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ L. H. Glover (1906), A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, pp. 412–414
  6. ↑ Kathryn Bishop Eckert (1993), Buildings of Michigan, Oxford University Press, p. 234, ISBN 9780195061499

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