The intersection of West Avenue and Main Street was never intentionally planned as the center of Cedartown, but as downtown grew south from the courthouse it became the city’s main intersection. In an 1899 view, the Houseal Building stood there with the Polk County Courthouse clock tower rising above it. A frame building on the corner served as a restaurant in 1900, then burned to the ground in 1906. Soon afterward, A.C. Cobb, who had begun a department store in 1893, built a handsome brick structure on the corner, and the spot thereafter became known as Cobb’s Corner. Between the 1930s and 1950s, on-street parking on Main Street changed from angled to parallel parking to improve traffic flow because the intersection was once the crossing of U.S. 27 and 278, and U.S. 278 was later rerouted away from downtown to reduce truck traffic through the tight intersection. In a late 1960s view, modern awnings and aluminum veneers hid the brick detailing of Cobb’s Corner and the Houseal Building, but both buildings were eventually given major historically accurate renovations with help from the Main Street Program.