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]
Carroll and Bessie E. (Caul) Jones House | |
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| Location | 170 W. Main Street, Marcellus, Michigan |
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| Coordinates | 42°1′38″N 85°49′0″W / 42.02722°N 85.81667°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1898 |
| Architect | Alan Clother Varney |
| Architectural style | Dutch Colonial Revival, Romanesque Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 97001482[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 1, 1997 |
| Designated MSHS | January 17, 1986[2] |
History
editCarroll 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
editThe 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
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e "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.
- ^ Emma C. Brewster Jones, ed. (1908), The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907, Higginson Book Co., p. 639
- ^ a b "History". G.W. Jones Exchange Bank. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
- ^ L. H. Glover (1906), A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, pp. 412–414
- ^ Eckert, Kathryn Bishop (1993). Buildings of Michigan. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-19-509379-7.