Interventions to Protect

Lumley & Co. General Store, 1888

BRANCH:
Not part of an ACO Branch
ADDRESS:
8979 Iona Road
Iona Station ON
N0L 1P0
UPDATED:
November 8, 2021

Moorish Revival commercial building with Italianate accents, built for Mary and James Owen Lumley. Location of the first telephone office of the Southwold & Dunwich Telephone Association.

ACO St Thomas Elgin President Laurence Grant has bought the store. His restoration of it, including decorative masonry on its exterior walls, earned him an honourable mention at ACO’s 2017 Awards.

Laurence Grant, President ACO St Thomas Elgin participated in the establishment of the Dutton Dunwich Municipal Cultural Heritage Committee (DDHMC) in 2017. Its recommendations for designation of five buildings have all been accepted by Municipal Council.

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