Mimi's Memories Antique Shop

Acrylic on birch
wood panel
8"X12"
2022

Painting of a beautifully preserved building on main street in the little town of Saxonburg that retains its authetic character. Once home to Edward Napoleon Bonaparte Mershon and Homer Lafayette Mershon, who were both brothers and doctors. Their office was in the back and their drugstore in the front; with a living space was upstairs. Edward Mershon's daughter, Edna, lived there after her father's death. She never married and let the home fall into disrepair.

Jenny Slater Nelson, a local antiques collector who loves history saved the house from demolition. Now it's Mimi's Memories Antique shop. She rescued the doctors' cabinets, bottles and medical equipment and recreated the front room as it would have been in the doctors' lifetime at the turn of the 20th century. She restored the back room with an exam table, instruments and the doctor's original desk. There are even records of the babies they delivered. It cost $2 if you had your baby in the office but went up to as much as $10 if you needed Dr. Mershon to come to your home and deliver

Painting is ready to hang with wire hanging kit, painting continues around wood panel.