Canal Front Dry Goods Store
Metamora, Franklin County, Indiana
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Subject: Canal Front Dry Goods Store
Erected by: Indiana Division of Tourism and the
Metamora Shop Keepers 1976Located: Main Street near Banes Street, Metamora, Indiana (#72 on Metamora Map)
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Two story frame of Federal Style built by Jonathan Banes in 1848. First known as the firm of Jenks, Banes and Calvin Jones. Harry and Alvin Blacklidge 1852-57. Mahlon and Milton Gordon 1857-62. Wm. N. Gordon started banking business in west half 1910. Later relocated across the canal, east half was Caroline Gordon’s Candle Shop. Back addition was an old icehouse, upstairs was community hall for dancing, roller skating and yearly traveling medicine show.
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