272 S Belknap St 

Faulkner and Faulkner constructed this large square building on the corner of W. McNeil St. and S. Belknap Ave. as a  livery stable in 1899. Built of rough-hewn limestone, it replaced their livery stable destroyed by fire in August of that  year. Their stable reopened in November and the Erath Appeal called it “one of the finest buildings in this city.”  According to Wayne Sherrod, a long narrow room along the south side of the building was a stable for horses and the  main section of the building housed buggies and wagons. By 1921, this building became an auto repair garage. New  business owner Grundy Fenner replaced the wood floors with a concrete floor and covered the limestone walls with  stucco. Fenner and his staff provided rides for patrons to and from the railroad depot and the college and rented cars to  customers. During the 1930s to 1940s, Wayne Barham ran a produce company and small hatchery from this building.  Barham added the doors and windows that exist today.  The façade, or east elevation, of this building along S. Belknap Ave., features two entries under arched bays, four  arched bays filled with fixed-metal windows, and one large rectangular bay supported by a wood lintel and filled with  fixed metal windows. Atop the façade is one large straight parapet with a curved side facing south. The south elevation  along W. NcNeil St. has four arched windows, an arched entryway and two small rectangular windows at the roofline.  The curved parapet, stucco walls and arched bays convey a Mission Revival appearance to this building, which reflects  the continuum of history from its use as a livery stable to auto garage to produce company.