Greene Building

Greene Building. . This lot was originally sold by H.M. Homsley to P.C. Mitchell for $200 in December of 1871. Then from Mitchell and his wife to J.W. Smith in May of 1872 for $900. Then from the Smith Estate in June of 1872 to a Mr. Burns for $19.50 delinquent taxes. Then from Burns to R.D. Smith, a relative, and from Smith to J.W. Greene in February of 1882. Mr. Greene took 2 notes from a Mr. Blum and a Mr. Lindsey for a total of $7000 for construction of the present building. The building next went to Dora Greene in September of 1944. Then to her son, Cyril Greene, and then to his daughter, Kathleen Marshall. Kathleen Marshall sold the building to John Huett in February of 1977. The building was owned by the Greene family from 1882 until 1977. Early businesses located here were Carnes/Wilson Saloon in 1874, that John Wesley Hardin entered before heading up the street to the east where the Jack Wright Saloon was located and his shooting of Brown County Deputy John Webb, Chilton Bros. and Cunningham Dry-Goods in the early 1900s, a grocery store during the 1940s and 50s owned by a Mr. Thate, a Western Auto Store in the 1960s and 70s owned by Walter Niemann, and the service drug from 1977 until February of 2006 when it closed after 75 years in business.