Carroll Jones House

Carroll and Bessie E. (Caul) Jones House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Michigan State Historic Site
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Location	170 W. Main Street, Marcellus, Michigan
Coordinates	42°1′38″N 85°49′0″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1898 (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]

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. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "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. "History". G.W. Jones Exchange Bank. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
5. L. H. Glover (1906), A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, pp. 412–414
6. Eckert, Kathryn Bishop (1993). Buildings of Michigan. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-19-509379-7.

External links

• G.W. Jones Exchange Bank