Wood's Building

Also The Royal Bank building

Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.

Acte : # 5633
Date : 29 janvier 1855
Deed of Sale by Carlos F. Haskell, Trader of the Town of Derby (Vt.), to Willard Wood, Merchant Tailor of the Township of Stanstead.

Résumé : Vente d’un partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …being on the same tract of land, whereon there is a building now erected known as “The Wood’s Building” and measuring forty eight feet in length by twenty four feet in front, bounded towards the East by the Queens’s Highway, to the West by the land of Albert Young, to the North by the Road leading from the Highway to Stephen Foster’s brick dwelling house and to the South by the Canal […] ». La vente est conclue pour la somme de 62 pounds 12 shillings.

Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.

Acte : # 8894
Date : 9 février 1866
Deed of Sale by Mrs. Abigail Foster, widow of the late Willard Wood, Merchant Tailor of the Township of Stanstead, to Thomas O’Rourke, Tailor, and John O’Rourke, Trader, both of the same Township.

Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …being the same tract of land, whereon there is a Building now erected known as “W. Wood’s Building” and measuring forty eight feet in length by twenty four feet in front, bounded towards the East by the Queens’s Highway, to the West by the land of Albert Young, to the North by the Road leading from the Highway to Stephen Foster’s Brick dwelling house and to the South by the Canal […] ». La vente est conclue pour la somme de 1 200 dollars. [Achat de W. Wood en 1855, voir acte # 5633]

STANSTEAD J – STEVENS. F3T2. Stanstead Journal, file 2 of 2. Brochure rédigée par Penny Farfan, « The Old Journal Building », Rock Island, Heritage Technologies, 1986, 16 p.

Document sur l’histoire du Stanstead Journal, de ses dirigeants et des bâtisses qui l’ont abrité.

Site of Wood's Building, The Stanstead Journal's Home from 1847 to 1855 (Voir carte, lettre E).
"Then, in June of 1847, The Journal moved to the second storey of Wood's Building, which stood where the Royal Bank is now located, and there it remained until 1855".

Maple Ave: Stephen Foster’s house; The Libby house (owned by Otis Warren); the Parson house (owned by Willard Wood); the Gilmore house on the corner (owned by Levi Spalding)

1835: There was but one building (the old Yellow) btw the bridge and the Kelly House on the right hand of the road. On the other side were Foster & Spalding’s, the Gaylord and Walton building, the Wood tailor shop (now O’Rourke) and the Spalding dwelling house on the corner.
Stanstead Journal: first printed in the Wood building. The present office was for a dwelling house, for a person known in those days as “Abe Wheeler”. Since 1860, except for a few years the printing presses have been run by the same power that runs the machinery in the ad- …ining factory. The “Mammoth store” was built on the site of the old saw mill and lumber yard.

Charles O’Rourke: 1847: purchased the Willard Wood building, partnership with his brother Thomas as merchant tailor.

Localisation du Wood's Building dans Penny Farfan, « The Old Journal Building », 1986