Jones Brothers Block

Jones Brothers Block. . , When Lot 7 was divided in 1868, this eastern half was sold to Charles and William Jones. They formed a partnership with Charles Paxton, but later bought out Paxton's interest and built an impressive three storey brick building here in 1873. The Jones brothers operated a clothing and dry goods store on the western half of the building and a general store in the remainder. This building was lost in a fire that destroyed the entire business section of town in July 1884. , A new building was constructed and in the eastern half, John McClung formed a partnership with William Jones to sell clothes, while the western half of the store was devoted to groceries, crockery and boots and shoes. Charles Jones returned to buy the eastern half of the building where he and his son operated a dry goods store. , The two sections went through a number of owners including Oke and McGregor, George Davey, W.C. Monet and F.W. McIntyre and the Port Perry 5¢ to $1.00 variety store, which later became the Mersco 5¢ to $1.00 store. In 1988 the property was purchased by Wayne and Carolyn Luke, who opened the Victorian Card shop in this section.