Constructed between 1900 and 1905 in close proximity to the H&TC rail line, this 2-story  brick building housed a series of wholesale grocery concerns (Sanbom Map Company, 1905).  Among the first occupants, the Central Texas Grocery Company operated out of the building as early as 1908. It remained in business into the 1920s with W.M. Wilson as company president and James Emerson Whiteselle, one of the most prominent businessmen and civic leaders in the city, as  its vice-president. By 1921 the Southern Wholesale Grocery Company occupied the building along  with the Central Texas Grocery Company.