Dr. Thomas Bascom Campbell, who with his wife Melissa came to Glen Rose from Alabama in 1877, was one of the earliest promoters of the town. The couple purchased the entire Block 6 of the original town site. There they erected the Campbell Building as investment property, together with an adjacent wooden livery stable and a four-story stone and wood hotel, the Campbell House. The two-story limestone Campbell Building, built in 1894, survives from this early construction and remains one of the most impressive structures in the downtown district. Campbell built it originally to house three retail tenants downstairs, while providing meeting space for a fraternal lodge and rental offices upstairs. Showing fashionable Victorian influences of Italianate style, it boasts fine stonework, multiple arched windows on both levels, and handsome original woodwork on some of its windows and doors. Since its construction the building has housed multiple retail enterprises for well over a hundred years.