Colors often identify products for consumers, and the bright red and white of this building connected it with the beverage bottled inside—Coca Cola. For several years Glen Rose held the distinction of being the smallest town in America to support a full-fledged Coca Cola bottling plant, and the operations took place inside this building. The facility grew in three stages after bottling moved here about 1920. It was about the time when Grover C. Gibbs purchased the franchise. Production began in the brown stone right rear of the present facility. Gibbs in the 1930s made a similar-sized concrete block addition to the front and painted it white. Demand for the product continued to grow, and during the 1940s he again doubled the size of the plant. Red ceramic tile with white trimmed the addition on the left end, while the older concrete block section was faced with a matching veneer of red tile. This last expansion also included construction of a tiny second-story room atop the flat roof to hold canisters of syrup so that it could flow by gravity to the bottling equipment below. The plant operated until 1974. Thereafter it has housed an insurance office, restaurants, a souvenir shop, and even the Glen Rose Chamber of Commerce.