On July 9, 1891, Archibald Cashion sold part of original town Lot 42 to Thomas Hooss for $500. Hooss, a prominent and well-respected citizen of Perryville, operated the Thomas Hooss Agricultural Implement Company in a wood frame building on the south side of the square by 1895, selling farm equipment. In 1901, Joseph and Mrs. Joseph Buehler rented the building from Hooss and continued their business there as Buehler's Meat Market, selling meat, fresh fish every Friday, and Krinard's baked goods. Hooss died in 1912 and left the property to his daughter, Myrta Hooss Herbst. In February 1925, Joseph Buehler and his son Sanford, known as Sam, bought the building from Myrta Herbst for $2,500. Soon afterward, the building received a new stucco front, two large plate windows, and a ten-foot Hussman freezer display regarded at the time as the most up-to-date equipment available; meats were displayed on enamelware trays in a glass compartment with an even-control temperature cooling system. Joseph Buehler eventually retired and left the business to Sam, who ran the meat market with his eldest son, Gerald "Jerry," until Sam's death in 1959. Jerry then continued the family business, remodeled the interior into a more modern grocery store, and operated it until Jack Loiseau and Loy Nelson invited him to work at the L and N Supermarket. After 60 years in business, Buehler's Meat Market closed in May 1961. Later tenants included Taylor's Fabric Shop and C.M. Brown Associates, and in 2002 Sam Buehler's granddaughter, Sue Modde Hotop, and her husband Danny purchased the building from Charles M. Brown and became its owners.