A. L. Davis, a real estate agent, bought this property and in 1891, erected this two-story stone edifice to be used as a mercantile business on the first floor and a meeting room upstairs. A general mercantile store carried most every type of merchandise that would be needed by the people other than refrigerated goods. The W.T. Chapman Firm would buy the property in 1901 and continued to run the store until 1920, when they sold it to the Masonic Lodge, who took over the upper floor for their meeting place. Solon Glosson would lease the bottom floor in 1942 and run his Red and White Grocery there until November, 1951 when the building burned to the ground, leaving only the stone walls. Only the first floor of the building was rebuilt and would come to house a hardware store. W. E. “Bill” McNair purchased the building in 1962 and ran it until O.C. Harmon bought it in 1976. Harmon added on to the building by constructing a rock room on the right side of the building. Bob Purcell bought the property in 1994 and installed his electric company in the rock addition. The main room has seen use as a church, antique store, and now the Lone Star Gifts, an assignment store, where patrons lease space and have their products displayed in this space to sell. Today, the Mazama Coffee Co. occupies the rock addition.

Johnny Spaw had been a barber in Dripping Springs for many years and had been leasing a building in a different part of town to house his barber shop. However, the building's owner decided to reconstruct the building at a new location and make it so the new building would not have leasing space avaialbe for Spaw's barber shop. Now having no location for his business, Spaw began to look for a new place to house his business. He eventually negotiated with a land owner to purchase a 25x50 foot parcel of land next along Mercer Street. He would be back in business inside his little rock building by September, 1937, and remained in business there until he retired in December 1963. Between 1937 and 1963, during his years of being a barber, Spaw decided to split the building in half to become a dual-use building. Half of the building would be a barber shop and the other half would serve as the DS post office. Spaw's wife, Mary, ran the post office, and it was said Mary had a trapdoor on her side to store post office valuables. Eventually, after both Mary and Johnny had retired, it continued to be a barbershop until 1979. It remained in the hair business until 1993 as a hair saloon by several owners. Since then, the quaint little rock building has housed various types of enterprises.