June 29, 1923 Munn's was a jewelry store and optometrist at Scheefer Jewelers 22 Broadway in Saranac Lake.
From Phil Gallos' piece on Scheefer Jewelers:
Frederick Hull [who owned the building] was a jeweler, and the ground floor of 20-22 Broadway remained a jewelry store until at least 1980. He leased the space to Matthew M. Munn and Ernest Lamy, beginning February, 1919, for $75 per month. By 1923, Lamy was out of the picture; and, in February of that year, Hull sold the building to George Kleiner for $21,000. [...]
Two days before Christmas, 1924, Matthew Munn paid Kleiner $25,500 for 20-22 Broadway; and the deed was subject to a $15,000 mortgage.
Matt Munn was one of the Munn brothers who owned the well-known grocery store in the Fowler Block. He developed an interest in the jewelry business early on and left the grocery primarily in the hands of his brother Will. Later in the 1920s, he took on William G. Scheefer as a junior partner.
By May, 1936, Munn was not actively involved in the business, and he was leasing the store space to Scheefer for the same amount he had paid Hull 17 years before — $75 per month. Earlier that May, Matt Munn had taken on a rather substantial responsibility. Lionel Miller, whose pharmacy was in the McIntyre Block, was in such difficult financial straits with so many creditors that he gave Munn power of attorney and assigned to Munn all of his property, including his home at 7 Prospect Avenue. This house has what may be the only pentagonal cure porch in the village.
Less than three years later, March 1939, Caroline Hull repossessed 20-22 Broadway with a foreclosure bid of $8,000; and Bill Scheefer paid her $8,400 for it in May of the same year. Ownership passed to William G. Scheefer, Jr. in July, 1946.
Lake Placid News, November 2, 1928
EXPERT WATCH MAN AT MUNN'S JEWELRY STORE
Fred Herviex of New York has arrived in Sararnac Lake to take charge of the watch repairing department at the jewelry shop of M. M. Munn, Saranac Lake.
He is an expert of long experience. In taking up his new duties he becomes associated with one of the old, established jewelry firms of the Adirondacks.
