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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-07-24, Page 55,• , • , • • • Y241r 197$7,..PAGE • et eetIkef t !Ink talln aturtilire corner in 100 was a Yar11 A41044118 DinSley's • Carriage works newly built by award Dinsiey approximately the site of the west end of BertlifrIt Present bakeshop on Ratteebery Street: Abe* 1071, slam Taylor, dealing in boots and shoes, built a small retail Store en the corner, and at an undetermined date a house was • built adjoining. Before 1894 the shop and the store had • been H. burnt, and all that remained on ie site Was "a small frame ending that INAS nearly as old as the town itself" which was demolished in 1897.\ ._ paring 'the time the lot was yacant, it was used as an prompt** show ground where such as patent thedicine men held Their shows; hi Septe er 1894 and in other year* the was a merry-go-round en the co er; in August 1895fa lor's Workshop on, Wheels" w on • location grffiding knives nd scistors. When the present Pu .11c •' Library Was being planned 1896-1897 "Dinsley's Corner",wa '•considered as a site or th building. The probable reason for e. long vacancy was that the Owner was an "absenteelandlordi "Jiving in Chicago. . By 1905 Mr. J.J. Johnston. who lived" at 63 Rattenbery Street. East, had bought the Dinsley lot aod was platining to build. The present building was completed in September 1906. Harry Bartliff was the first tenant of the corner tecation, and A.J. Holloway, erticer. was the first occupant of the Albert Street store, The • cement work for the building was • by Hiram Hill, and after the Normandie Hotel, it was the 'second cement block building of any size in Clinton. At the present site of Gar - diner's Barbershop and the Clinton Commercial Printers, Ltd.. Edward Dinsley built a frame store in 1854. It was first used as tinsmith shop by John • Reid: succeeded by W.C. Searle. Later it was occupied by Thomas • Stanbury in the erocery and• lit e*ineSS. The' , Ore sur' ▪ YIYodt fires on its Lsouth and Wattle kno n "the nt'ePreet h011tline -but - in Nowernber 1000 it went—up in flames sufficiently but to crePk the windows of Stores across the street, and was wholly destroyed. in 4905 a bowling alley with a barbershop in front waS-built by Sam Cogger on the present site of Ciardinees Barbershop. It too was destroyed by fire. probably shortly after 'the First World War, but the date of its demise hus not been ascertained. The site of the Clinton Commercial - Printers Ltd. remained vacant after the 1900Atire until 1936whfl1 Mrs. Sutherland of Seaforth built the Rosy Theatre. It survived unnumbered Gene Autry pictures and was=elosed in December 1959 be bought immediate,ly by Ltiurie Colquhoue. In March 1960 the building began its present career as a printing plant. - Jervis' store -and. apartments is It former hetet, the Mason House, which wastuilt on the site of an earlier, hotel, the Prince of Wales. Likewise, the vacant lot immediately south of Jervis' Was the location of. the vanished Farmers, Hotel. Both the Farmers aiul the Piince of Wales are believed to have been built after 1858 and before -1863. Between thetn was the Orange 1 i$hich became incorporated to the Fifth -eft -Howl.- -• fore the Wilding of the first to hall in 1870, the Orange Hall was the only large public asse bly room in town. Both the hotels were of frame con- structi• . but little is known of them. e Prince of Wales was the term us for the stagecoach to Wingham in 1869, and a free omnibus se vice was provided to the Clinton r lway station. Some of the landia of the Prince of Wales were: n.Mooney, up to 1865; Thomas per, 1869; W.M. McCetcheon. 1871: George •Swartz, 1884; Jo n Lee, 1891 to 1894. Some of the ndlords of the Farmers Hotel wer : John Ross, up to 1875: Sam Pi 1878, who changed the name to e Central Hotel; ,.fohn Spooner. 1878: L. Kennedy, 1889: and Robert Mason, 1893. A spl,„ spirited roadsters ehotrgi at the hit In front of the Maim House about ISO while the driver, having -wetted his,whistie, eyes the camera with satisfaction ,front bgt,teath his hombOrg hat. • In 1894, Robert Mason, in any rate the Farmers Hotel possession of the Farmers Hotel disappeared, and the Mason (the Central)* bought the Prince House, on the 51(0 01 the Prince of of• ,Wales (Lce's Hotel) and Wales. exists today as R.L. contracted with Sam Cooper to Jervis' store and apartments. have a new brick veneer hotel The Mason House had a suc- built on the site of the Prince of -cession of landlords among whom • Wales. The new hotel, The Masao were 14t. Walper, 1886; Mr. House, was opened in July 1894. It Dawson, 1898; Reuben Graham. is not clear from Contemporary 1900; Mr. Brandenbrger, 1903; newspaper accounts what hap-, *andi 1905 Reuben Graham pened thereafter to the Farmers Hotel. My father, who was eleven years of ,age at the time, claimed that in May 1895 Lee's Hotel (the Fartners) burned down from a fire thitt started in the stable and that after the fire was thought to then passed to John Crawford be out, at sprang up agaan oh the whose son Johnnie Crawford roof of the Mason Nouse and from there spread north and burnt down more buildings. The contemporary newspaper reports however, do not mention any hotel other than the Mason House. A 1900 newspaper account alludes to the Farmers Hotel burning down. and since it is known to have existed as Lee's Hotel' until 1894, the fire must h&c occurred after nr in 1894. At. bought the property Mal changed the name to the Graham House. It is understood that despite Prohibition which carne in 1913 Mr. Graham continued until after the First World War. The hotel MO. - 41" , t trio of heys was whooping telt rtOrtillaitriiS 50 -.West of Bartliffs store , 50 -north side -of Rattenbury Street west, west of Bartilfrs store , (c) copyright 197S One of the earliest 1ndustiis in Clinton was built by Edwarci Dinsley in 1850 .apparently on the land now occupied by the cement block addition to Bartliff's bakeshop. It was sometimes referred to as a wagon shop, sometimes a carriage shop. It probably turned eut both wagons It and buggies. Some detail of its history is given in the foregoing section. It seems quite, clear that its first location was on the north side efilarenbury Street, but the article quoted iii section 49 seems sufficiently knowledgeable to warrant the conclusion that at an undetermined date the building was moved to the south side. where it still stands. Immediately west of Bartliff's bakeshop on the site of the parking lot and gas pump for Bartliff's vehicles, there was formerly a large barn..lt is un- derstood to have originally been the stable for the Prince of Wales Hotel -(see 51) and was therefore built probably between 1858 and 1863. The first mention of the 4' became Captain of the Boston Bruins. 'A Mr. Dorsey is thought to have had the hotel after Mr. 1...Crawford. and about 1928 it was taken Over by A.S. litkley. being theti known as the Clinton Inn. It is belieyed to have ended its career as a hotel about 1935: • The •space between Jervis' store.and the present Fairholme Dairy was occupied in 1863 by a block of frame stores operated by J.B. Racey. These • were destroyed in the fire,,of 10 May 1895 discussed in the foregoing. The occupants at the time.•south to north. were: T. Quigley. shoemaker: Cantekin grothers. storehouse; - Woo Sing. laundry: • and Cook's photo gallery. The history of the present frame buildings .north of Jervis' - an empty store and the Lori Lyn Beauty Salon. has not been ascertained. The vacant space immediately south_ of the dairy twas the site of. a air .kuting rink in the winter cif 1909-1910. - and perhaps.in other years Ire the 1930's and perhaps earlier. it was the site of, -a horseshoe pitch which was lighted at night- and had a few benches for spectators along the sidewalk The 1895 fire stopped its nor- thward course at the, brick barn itt the ma teriat censulted for • this article is in 1901 When the harts was reported as being fitted up as a commercial livery barn for A.A. Schrenk and N. Warrener, the Partnership being newly formed. • In 1904 'it became Warrener • Brothers' and in 1908 was bought by Themits Cook who is reported as putting in "a newand up to ' date -livery outfit". Warreners are-•belleved to have moved their livery business. to, Mary Street (see 24) at this time. The barn 'on Rattcnbury Street is honeyed to have been demolished about 1950. building now occupied by the Fairhoirde Dairy which at that tithe ,was ' Beckwith's Bakery. This brick building and those presently adjoining to the north were built after a fire in April 1885 that destroyed frame buildings occupied by Young's bakeshop and Cartoon Brothers produce and grocery business. These frame buildings almost certainly dated from- 1871 and probably earlier. In 4he 1884 fire alluded to above Miller and Tedford's blacksmith shop. on the south side of Prin- cess Street at' Albert, directly adjoining the buildings that were burnt. was 'saved From • the flames. but its time came in 1894. In this fire the blacksmith shop and two storehoeses, and two stables to the rear. about on the site af J.W. Counter's present business. were destroyed, in- cluding a dog tied,up in one of the stables. Jacob Miller was in the street • watering busineSs and had a large tank of water at the rear of the shop. This tipped over during the fire. and generated a lot of steam hot did not quench the flames. The fire spread southward damaging Cook's feed sI ire. Cantelon firtithvrs grocery - and -produce store. and Beckwths bakery - all built of brick ...owe the Mil fire, and gave Cook's photo gallery and Woo Sing's laundry a foretaste of their fate in' 1895. Sonic hook and ladder work during the 1894 fire brought down 1.13. Racey'.s large sign which struck the fire chief, John Cuninghame. on The head, necessitating his being carried home unconscious un a dorm He was on his feet the next day. but with c-ontusions ori the head. Jacob s btacksirirth shop (Miller and Tedford until 1884) was not rebuilt on the south side I !I' the street. as Mr. Miller was in the process • of building a new shop•on the north side tit tin' time of the fire, • Saluting Clinton on its 100 years of Progress... 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