William Carter Building, 109-111 SW Barnard Street

William Ninian “Bill” Carter was one of the business leaders of Glen Rose from the 1920s to 1960s. He served on the first city council of the town and helped to write its initial city charter, not to mention founding and operating the Glen Rose Funeral Home and a floral shop. In 1925 he purchased the two lots where the Cater Building now stands, thinking that they might increase in value. His hunch was right, for in 1928 construction began on the three-story Glen Rose Hotel just to the southwest. This new hotel greatly increased both foot and vehicular traffic in front of the property, where Carter erected this building to rent to retail businesses. The building since that time has almost continuously housed commercial tenants. For decades the Glen Rose Post Office operated in the left half of the building, while the Gavitt Drug Store did business in the right half, even doubling as the local bus station. In recent years the structure has been the site for such businesses as restaurants, barbershop, and shoe repairs.