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Johnston Blakeley Jones

Johnston Blakeley Jones (1814–1889) was born at Rock Rest in Chatham County and settled in Chapel Hill as a physician in 1841. He took over the old medicine shop on Franklin Street and, with Dr. George Moore, ran a practice that also trained medical students. In the 1850s he built a board-and-batten Gothic Revival cottage, the only one known in Chapel Hill. Bankrupt by 1865, he moved to Charlotte in 1868.

Source: NCpedia: Jones, Johnston Blakeley

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  1. 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. 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. 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

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