Stone's Block

Stone's Block is a three-story brick commercial building on the southeast corner of the main downtown intersection in Sandusky, at Columbus Avenue and East Market Street. Built around 1870 in the High Victorian style, it has a decorative cornice with brackets, pressed metal ornament on the centered gable, and unusually large windows. Triple windows have pointed ornamentation, other windows have rounded tops, and all have cut stone lintels, with pilasters separating the window sets. The first floor has been altered with a modern storefront and shortened side windows. The building has served many commercial uses, including a men's clothing store, a business college in 1888, a dime store and later a discount store. It was also the interurban station for the Lake Shore Electric Railway, described as the longest electric railway in the country, from the early 1900s until about the second quarter of the century. Its commercial record, Victorian design and railway connection support its listing.