Deverell's. I bV MvwINm One of the architectural gems of dowmiown Wluitby la the Devereil block, on the west side of Brock St. S., wl"c was bufit and owned by an eady Whitby onnwctr named Thomas Devereil. Bufit in 1878, it consit of fIve stores. The odginal occupants were: Laing and Stewart, dry goods; J.S. Robertson, staionery; and E.J. Johnson, fumiture and undertaking. It is not know who occupied the two middle stores lu 1878. After Laing and Stewart (later C.F. Stewart's store), which is now the location of Donald Travel, closed in 1911, the store was talcen over by hardware merciaut Jacob Mclntyre. Pain 1900 to 1917, the stores Io the lock always south mn Deverll's block were converted into a hotel cailed the New Armstrong House. Mmi name was later chauged to the Windsor Hotel, after Whitby's original name. After the hotel closed because of lack of business during World War 1, the block was convexted back to stores and bas remalned as such to thls day. I 1930, thie Royal Bank of Canada completely remodeiled the first store, where Donald's Tinvel la now, and put a new hmun on the building. Thec bank's tenure waa short-lived, however, for it was cosed oni acount of thie GreaDepression in 1935. McIntyre Hardware moved to tie second store in 1929 and oemaloed there a busy place until 1956. For a few years, stafing in 1919, die tbil store was the home of the Bank of Commerce, which joined the Standard Bank in 1929. Thomas Devereil, who bujit these stores, was a builder in Whitby for neady 60 yeais. He leamied his tirsde of masonry by belping to build, St. John's Anglican Church, at Port Whitby in 1846. At one trne, there was much fine Victorian woodwork around the windows and along the roof line of Devcreil's block, but over the years it has been oemoved. BRI4N WINTER is the archivist for the Town of Whiby. ROT Deverell's block as it was inl 1880 (Plctured at ieft> and as it is todlay (above>. ~4ForalyourFmnngoes.. ; ~~We are the Professoa ;-j XXXXX X X Xe i r Phot ised by permbsion from TOWN of' WHIrRV ARCHIV5 XNEEDLEWORK X*. m EAMINLn x x x xx1000" XCustom Framing 0f Ne edlework x X x x Not vald with any other offer X x Expires Oct. 31/93 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Propriefors Liiz am nd Onvel a ine Ccried Piciuz Fraise Jl5rokS S Wuib.L n~ (416)666-1330 'I