Dripping Springs citizen C. S. Graham bought two lots on the Eastern part of Mercer Street in 1884. There, he would build his historic house. The interesting story about his house lies in the fact that when it was built, the front porch faced Old Fitzhugh Road. However, around 1925, after either a fire or a remodel, the house was rebuilt. The house was rebuilt around the central fire place, but this time with the front porch facing Mercer street.

Dripping Springs resident C. W. Crenshaw bought the corner lot on San Marcos and Mercer Street in 1924 and constructed a wooden and tin building to be used as a garage and service station. Once construction finished, Crenshaw determined that this business would sell Texaco gas and products. By 1938, the road that the building was facing had officially become Highway 290. By that same time, D.W. Crenshaw had become the new owner of the station, who decided to renovate the building to give it a rock front and make the driveway face Mercer Street. After various changes in ownership, decades later in the 80's, the station was remodeled to become a barbershop. Finally, in 2009 it began another life as a beer and wine bar--appropriately named The Barber Shop.

Resident W. C. Goslin had owned this lot and its original building since 1934. In 1941, he decided to build a new building on the back of the lot that is what is now the historic stone building and use it as a drug store. When Mr. Goslin died in 1944, his family continued to run the business for another year before beginning to lease it out to others. In 1960 the building owner, Polly Goslin, opened a specialty shop in the building. She also decided to share the space with her son Harvey, allowing him to run an insurance business in the same building as her shop. Goslin's daughter, Edith Goslin Cauthen, helped her run the specialty shop. When Mrs. Goslin died in 1973 and Harvey in 1976, the store was closed and leased to Bill Bassett in 1981. He converted the building into a machine shop named Brass Works and occupied the building until his death in 2014. The store now has reverted to a clothing apparel shop named Starr's on Mercer.