Bryan’s Dry Goods, 100 W Walnut Street

Bryan’s Dry Goods Building does not appear in any photographs made before a 1902 tornado devastated Glen Rose, but it had been built at least by November 29, 1904, when burglars blew the safe inside the dry goods store. It was on the same night that they also raided the post office in a wooden building next-door. A year later on September 21, 1905, the stone walls of Bryan’s Dry Goods stopped a fire that burned down every other commercial building in the block, all of which were of wooden construction. Over the years the structure housed a wide range of business enterprises, among them a dry goods, grocers, confectioners, clothing, flowers, and antiques, not to mention two long-standing pharmacies. On the Barnard Street side of Bryan’s store are the last known cut-limestone street curbs in downtown Glen Rose. They are worth examining, so step around and take a look. While there, admire the careful stonecutting of the exposed limestone blocks forming the southeast side of the building.