Johnston Blakeley Jones

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1841 Drs. Johnston Blakeley Jones and George Moore open a medical practice and teach medicine Dr. Jones moved to Chapel Hill and took over the old medicine shop, and with Dr. George Moore ran a practice that also trained medical students. The maps show the two doctors' office there through 1868. People: Johnston Blakeley JonesSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 75
2. 1850s Dr. Johnston Blakeley Jones builds a Gothic Revival cottage on West Cameron Avenue In the 1850s Dr. Jones, one of the village's two physicians before the war, built a board-and-batten cottage at 321 West Cameron with Gothic windows in its front gable, a bay window and a porch of arched latticework. It is the only Gothic Revival cottage known in Chapel Hill, probably based on a pattern book such as Downing's. People: Johnston Blakeley JonesSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 28
3. about 1868 Dr. Johnston Blakeley Jones sells his West Franklin home to banker William A. Wright Bankrupt by 1865, Jones left for a new practice in Charlotte in 1868 and sold his house to William A. Wright, president of the Bank of Cape Fear, who wanted it as a refuge. People: Johnston Blakeley JonesSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 115
4. By June 1928 Chi Psi buys Dr. Jones's Gothic cottage on Cameron Avenue for its fraternity house By early June 1928 Mrs. C. L. Lindsay, who had the place from her father David McCauley, sold the property at 321 West Cameron Avenue to the newly re-established Chi Psi fraternity for about $30,000, the Weekly reported, with faculty member W. C. Coker active in the negotiation (Little has Coker as the buyer). The 1850s Gothic cottage of Dr. Johnston Blakeley Jones became the Chi Psi fraternity's house. People: William Chambers Coker, Johnston Blakeley JonesSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 29 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 8, 1928, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 14, 1928, p. 1