In 1906, Jones sold his zoo to the Roman Catholic Church who built the Basilica of St. Mary on its site after receiving complaints about noise from neighbors.[1] He moved his zoo a quieter portion of town, the area around Minnehaha Falls. He rebuilt his zoo as the Longfellow Zoological Gardens, and a ⅔ scale replica of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's house where he lived.[4] He built his zoo up and by the late 1920s, it included a polar bear, seals and elephants.[4]