Part 2 Rouses Point (NY) Pearl’s Department Store

Chain: Pearl’s Department Stores, Inc.

Date Opened: 1928

Date Closed: 1988

Street Address(es) when open (Building name/block) [Current Address]:

Pearl’s  in Rouses Point had two locations.

  • #1)  The Jefferson* Building (name in article) (actually Bowron Block built in 1908) (on the corner of Lake Street and State) [See photo below] [1928-1955] *Jefferson was the name of one of the businesses in the building.
  • #2) The Slingsby Building on Lake Street (purchased in 1955 by P. I. Pearl) [See photo below] [1955-1988] 119 Lake Street

Former Store(s)  in Location(s):

  • #1) Wootten’s Store, prior to that Laundrie’s Cash Bazaar. Wootten purchased store March 1923
  • #2) Unknown

Later Store(s) in Location(s):

  • #1) Ben Franklin Store
  • #2) Unknown

Buildings still exist?:

  • #1) Yes, but first floor facade has been modified
  • #2) Yes

Owners, Managers, Employees:

  • Managers
    • Aaron Liebesman (Paul Pearl’s wife’s brother), first manager
    • Charlie Lambert, Manager
    • Horatio Chenevert, employee, then manager [approx. 1928 – retirement)
    • Conrad Boyer (during Horatio Chenevert’s  leave of absence 1953-1954)
    • Mrs. Benedict (Dot) Chenevert (1977 – ?)
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  • Employees:
    • Miss Delphine Willette (circa 1928)
    • Benedict “Benny” Chenevert (1947-?)
    • John Clancy (from Ticonderoga) (1951)
    • Mrs. Thomas (Caroline) Weatherwax (1947 -?)
    • Mrs. Joseph (Germaine) O’Leary (1947-?)
    • Marguerite Boyer (1953-1954) [Wife of Conrad Boyer]
    • Cornelius Naylor – carpenter and remodeler [Lived in apartment above store]

Subsequent Owners if sold:

Store was closed in 1988

Pictures:

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Laundrie’s Cash Bazaar and subsequent businesses (Post missed Pear’s which was after Wootten’s) (Rouses Point Champlain History Facebook Group)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Laundrie’s Cash Bazaar – winter (Rouses Point Champlain History Facebook Group)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Laundrie’s Cash Bazaar (Rouses Point Champlain History Facebook Group)

Pearl’s Rouses Point (Rouses Point Champlain History Group Facebook May 1 , 2023)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – FIrst Pearl’s Location (Rouses Point Champlain History Facebook Group 2025)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – 1950’s (Rouses Point Champlain History Facebook 2023)

Pearl’s Rouses Point Second location

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Ben Franklin Store (after Pearl’s moved to new location) (Rouses Point Champlain History Facebook Group)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Bowron Block (Building were first Pearls store was ) (Google Earth June 2026)

Pearl’s Rouses Point 119 Lake Street (Google Maps 2026)

Newspaper Articles & Ads:

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Wooten buys Laundrie’s Cash Bazaar (The Plattsburgh Sentinel, 6 March 1923 p5)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Pearl buys Wooten Store (The North Countryman, 1 March 1928 p9)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ad – (The North Countryman, 8 March 1928 p10)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Wooten Accounts (The North Countryman, 4 April 1928 p9)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Spiegel Dry Cleaning (The North Countryman, 24 May 1928 p11)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – School Opening ad (The North Countryman, 30 August 1928 p16)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – School Opening ad (The North Countryman, 6 September 1928 p13)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ad (The North Countryman, 1 November 1928 p14)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Speigal ad (The North Countryman, 8 November 1928 p14)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – apartment above store (The North Countryman, 8 November 1928 p16)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Rouses Point becomes Trading Center (The North Countryman, 15 November 1928 p1)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ad – (The North Countryman, 15 November 1928 p16)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – apt (The North Countryman, 15 November 1928 p16)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Essay Contest (The North Countryman, 22 November 1928 p1)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ad (The North Countryman, 29 November 1928 p10)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Christmas ad (The North Countryman, 6 December 1928 p18)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Willette falls (The North Countryman, 13 December 1928 p21)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Essay winner sweater (The North Countryman, 13 December 1928 p23)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Christmas ad (The North Countryman, 13 December 1928 p24)

Pearl’s Rouses Point -toiletries (The North Countryman, 10 January 1929 p16)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ads clothes (The North Countryman, 10 January 1929 p16)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – RP spring to liife (Press-Republican, 30 August 1988 p15)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ad with drug counter (The North Countryman, 7 February 1929 p18)

Pearl’s Rouses Point ad (The North Countryman, 4 April 1929 p16)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – 2 ads (The North Countryman, 11 April 1929 p16)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Grand Union ad (The North Countryman, 11 April 1929 p16)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Ladies Auxillary (The North Countryman, 25 July 1929 p1)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Congoleum ad (The North Countryman, 10 October 1929 p20)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Christmas ad (The North Countryman, 26 December 1929 p7)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ad (The North Countryman, 30 January 1930 p2)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Bathing Suit ad (The North Countryman, 19 June 1930 p3)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – closed for funeral of Vernin Vosburgh (The North Countryman, 22 September 1932 p4)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Northern New York’s Leading Department Store (The North Countryman, 8 November 1932 p6)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Compliments (The North Countryman, 25 May 1933 p13)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Chenevert attends annual picnic (The North Countryman, 26 July 1934 p14)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Dick Erving to pitch (The North Countryman, 27 June 1935 p1)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Legion Boy’s Band fund raiser (The North Countryman, 13 August 1936 p20)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Big Yank Work Clothes (The North Countryman, 17 June 1937 p18)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – 10 years ago (The North Countryman, 3 March 1938 p2)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Aaron Liebesman – store remodel (The North Countryman, 3 March 1938 p2)

Pearl’s Rouses Point & Alburg Easter Sales (The North Countryman, 14 April 1938 p19) JIC Note: The only ad I found with both Rouses Point  and Alburg store mentioned. They are just across the bridge.

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Chenevert 2 day picnic for Managers (The North Countryman, 7 July 1938 p4)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Christmas ad (The North Countryman, 8 December 1938 p13)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Easter ad (The North Countryman, 30 March 1939 p13) {JIC Note: Take a look at the Grand Union  food prices.

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Pistol Tournament ad (The North Countryman, 5 September 1940 p9)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Easter Ball Tournament (The North Countryman, 10 April 1941 p11)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Baby Derby (The North Countryman, 1 May 1941 p10)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Consumer Credit Law (The North Countryman, 25 June 1942 p11)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Consumer Credit Law (The North Countryman, 6 August 1942 p9)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Consumer Credit Law (The North Countryman, 8 October 1942 p9)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – flat above store (The North Countryman, 8 June 1944 p13)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ad (The North Countryman, 27 March 1947 p17)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ad (The North Countryman 1947-05-01)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ad – (The North Countryman 27 July 1947)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Benedict Benny Chenevert starts at Pearl’s (The North Countryman, 12 June 1947 p2)  JIC Note: “Benny” was the store manager Horatio Chenevert’s brother.

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Supplied lines to Can Am Motel (The North Countryman, 22 June 1950 p2)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Linens for Can Am Motel (The North Countryman, 22 June 1950 p4)

Pearl’s Rouses Point (John Clancy employee (The North Countryman, 12 July 1951 p20)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Conrad Boyer Manager (The North Countryman, 15 January 1953 p3)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Dime Dance socks (The North Countryman, 5 February 1953 p1)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – employees (The North Countryman, 19 March 1953 p14)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Cheneverts (The North Countryman, 26 March 1953 p24)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Development (The North Countryman, 21 May 1953 p11)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Intl Goodwill Day (The North Countryman, 13 August 1953 p16)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Chenevert back (The North Countryman, 5 November 1953 p4)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Chenevert 40 years (The North Countryman, 12 November 1953 p14)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – 25 years ago 300  children got free tickets  (The North Countryman, 31 December 1953 p2)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Chenevert manager in ad (The North Countryman, 21 January 1954 p11)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – ad – (The North Countryman, 16 December 1954 p11)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Buys Building (The North Countryman, 14 July 1955 p1)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Christmas (The North Countryman, 22 December 1955 p20)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Mrs. Joseph O’Leary (The North Countryman, 19 January 1956 p6)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Witherwax employee Plattsburgh Press-Republican, 10 March 1956 p5

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Building remodeling (The North Countryman, 2 August 1956 p1)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Christmas (The North Countryman, 20 December 1956 p20)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Christmas (The North Countryman, 22 December 1960 p13)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – 10 years ago -Conrad Boyer mgr (The North Countryman, 17 January 1963 p8)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Horatio Chenevert obit (The North Countryman, 26 November 1964 p22)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Sportsman Barbeque (The North Countryman, 5 August 1965 p1)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Years ago – 300 donations (The North Countryman, 30 December 1965 p11)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – carpeting- (The North Countryman, 11 December 1969 p27)

Pearl’s Rouses point – Fashion Show (The North Countryman, 2 May 1968 p20)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Egg Rolling Contest (The North Countryman, 27 February 1975 p1)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Charlie Lambert (The North Countryman, 27 March 1975 p2)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Charlie Lambert, former manager (The North Countryman, 11 December 1975 p2)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Cornelius Naylor (The North Countryman, 14 July 1977 p2)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Dot Benedict Manager (The North Countryman, 27 October 1977 p2)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Compliment – Fire Department (The North Countryman, 28 June 1978 p43)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Compliment – Fire department (The North Countryman, 27 June 1979 p43)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – fire donation (Press-Republican, 3 January 1981 p13)

Pearl’s Rouses Point Lipazzin Stallions (Press-Republican, 12 May 1982 p22)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – Faye Gregoire employee Press-Republican—Monday, April 15,1985 p5

Pearl’s Rouses Point Cornelius Naylor obit Press-Republican—Wednesday, November 27,1985 p6

Pearl’s Rouses Point (Press-Republican, 8 May 1986 p18)

Pearl’s Rouses Point (Press-Republican, 8 May 1986 p18)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – recognition (Press-Republican, 12 June 1986 p9)

Pearl’s Rouses Point – old building (Press-Republican, 7 September 1988 p12)