Carroll Jones House

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
Carroll Jones House is located in Michigan
Carroll Jones House
Carroll Jones House is located in the United States
Carroll Jones House
Location170 W. Main Street,
Marcellus, Michigan
Coordinates42°1′38″N 85°49′0″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1898 (1898)
ArchitectAlan Clother Varney
Architectural styleDutch Colonial Revival, Romanesque Revival
NRHP reference No.97001482[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 1, 1997
Designated MSHSJanuary 17, 1986[2]

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.
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