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Photo Archives for Martin's Gen'L Store
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| Date | Type | Size (k) | Comments |
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| 2004 | color | after repairs | |
| 2002 | color | during repairs | |
| 2001 | color | 70 | accident damage |
| 1999 | color | 70 | interior |
| 1991 | color | 188 | most recent |
| 1970 | b/w | 62 | aerial view |
| 1956 | b/w | 28 | from E. Foster's History |
| 1956 | b/w | 34 | side view |
| 1954 | color | 196 | interior |
| 1950 | b/w | 67 | |
| 1940 | b/w | 66 | |
| 1928 | b/w | 61 | with porch |
| 1905 | b/w | 84 | interior view and Mr. Pantall [TIFF available] |
Read more about Richard Pantall, who started this store.
Read more about Ed Martin, who took over the store.
This is our museum building.
the following comments are copied from the application for the National
Historic Register
Richard Pantall was a cobbler by trade but in 1862 went into general
merchandising at this location. From 1864-1904, the store was also the
Millburn Post Office, Pantall serving as postmaster. Most of the additions to
the building -- all of them at the rear of the 1862 structure -- were made by
Pantall himself.
Pantall operated his general store until 1910, at which time Edward
Martin, who had been his associate since 1887, assumed the business
and conducted it until 1910. Something of a community social center
from its inception, the Pantall-Martin Store was also the
longest-lived and last operating general store in Lake County. The
building presently houses an antique shop.
more notes:
This is our museum building. Ed Martin retired from storekeeping in 1958.
The building was rented to a number of merchants over the next several years
until 1985, when Ed's son Richard passed away. Richard left the building
to the HMCA to be used as a museum.
A new wood shingle roof was installed in the fall of 1996.
The exterior was painted during the summer of 1997.