During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, among the first manmade structures in Glen Rose were cheaply built wood-frame and board-and batten pine lumber buildings with gable roofs and false fronts. They stood on three sides of the Glen Rose courthouse square. Only one of them remains today: The Glen Rose Produce Company building, which many years ago was sheathed in galvanized steel siding. This structure has the most common earmark of a feed store, a raised sidewalk constructed to facilitate loading bags of livestock and poultry feed into wagons or motor trucks. The sidewalk in front of this building has that typical elevation as well as groves in the sloped approaches to give men’s boots traction. Oral tradition indicates that the Glen Rose Produce Company building was erected about 1930, at which time Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Owens operated the store. By 1942 Earl Earp, Jr., purchased the enterprise and ran it for a number of years. After feed sales were lost to larger competitors, the building was used for a number of commercial purposes including art and photography studios.