The general mercantile building on this site was built of brick between 1930 and 1949, this one-story building features a concrete or limestone front. It originally housed two retail stores. The façade, or north elevation along W. Green St., currently features four bays, with an entryway in the westernmost bay. The two center bays extend all the way to the sidewalk and appear to have been garage bays at one time, but are now filled. The bay on the east end of the façade is filled with two narrow fixed-metal windows. The upper wall of the façade features a horizontal band or panel above the storefront and is topped by a fullwidth straight parapet. Between 1907 and 1912, a limestone building was constructed on the corner of E. Green St. and N. Virginia Ave. as a water works pump house for Stephenville. The city’s first water system, constructed in 1898, was part of A.C. Baldwin’s large industrial facility that occupied Block 17. It contained a cotton gin, a gristmill, the Stephenville Light Co., and a water works system for the city. In July 1912, the city assumed control of the water works system, and this pump house building appeared for the first time on the November 1912 Sanborn Map, so it could have been constructed by the city after it assumed control of the waterworks. That year, the system included two wells and an 80,000-gallon concrete reservoir for a community that consumed 40,000 to 60,000 gallons of water daily. By 1930, the city had relocated its waterworks and this building became part of a feed mill. By 1949, a large gabled roof covered it and a small ancillary office building constructed of Thurber brick to its south. Between the two buildings is an open area covered by the roof. The roof also covered two buildings constructed of Thurber brick behind the pump house. Today, the roof is covered with sheets of corrugated metal. The façade, or west elevation, of the pump house features two doors and the faded remains of an advertising mural for Evergreen products. The north elevation has two doors and two window bays along the sidewalk that have been enclosed with stone. According to local historian Wayne Sherrod, the wood used to construct the pump house came from the old Blakney homestead that was once located along E. Washington St.