J.M. Pruyn Grocery

Prominent local grocer and butcher Joel Pruyn, a New York native born in 1819, had this building constructed in 1885 to house a dry goods store for his son, Judd. That same year he and his wife built a house of cream brick at 303 S. Main Street, which still stands overlooking downtown Lodi. Only four years earlier he had built the one story commercial building across the street at 146 Main St. By the early 1900s, this building housed a funeral home and furniture store, professions that often shared spaces as furniture makers were often hired to build caskets.