Canton Wholesale Company Building

Built in 1920 at 15 Main Street in Canton, Georgia, this two-story brick warehouse served the Jones Mercantile Company, a business begun in 1879 that supplied bulk groceries and hardware to small stores across Cherokee County and north Georgia. It is the only surviving building of the company's group, which also included a garage, a store, a warehouse in Cartersville and a dairy. The building is square in form, with brick buttresses creating bays, concrete lintels, pivot windows with fourteen lights and a flat roof with pedimented parapets. Inside, pine post-and-beam framing, pine floors and exposed brick walls remain. The listing recognizes it as a plain but well-preserved example of the Stripped Classical style, one of few such warehouses identified in Georgia, and as an example of slow-burning heavy timber construction that remained in use well into the 20th century. It also reflects Canton's commercial growth after the railroad arrived. The building has been rehabilitated and is still a warehouse.