The Schmitt-Nobbe Building served primarily as a grocery store for most of its history. In 1941, Ambrose Schmitt inherited the property from his wife Annie Schmitt and chose to leave his holdings to their five children, with sons Peter and Ambrose receiving the 110 S. Church property. Peter left the site unimproved for 15 years while operating a grocery store on adjacent Mill Street from 1935 to 1956 as Peter Schmitt's AG Food Store. After Donald Schmitt returned from service in the US Army in 1955, he joined his father on the condition that the business be expanded and moved to 110 S. Church Street. Construction began in May 1956, and Peter W. Schmitt's AG Super Shop opened on November 29, 1956. The new 50 by 96 foot building featured bright lighting, wide aisles, walk-in refrigerators and storage rooms, five air conditioning units, ten refrigerators, Magic Doors, and counter conveyor belts, all of which reflected impressive new shopping innovations for the time. The store was renamed Schmitt's Tom-Boy Store in March 1961, Schmitt's Bi-Rite in 1966, and Schmitt's IGA in July 1984. On November 8, 2000, a newspaper notice announced that Schmitt's IGA had gone out of business, ending 65 years of Schmitt family grocery operations, including 44 years at the 110 S. Church Street building. Clark's Country Oaks furniture store then occupied the property from 2004 until August 2012. The building afterward returned briefly to grocery use when Ron and Pat Caywood and Robin Seidle opened Billiger Foods, named from the German word meaning cheaper, but that business lasted only a year. In 2013, William Nobbe and Company, Inc., a family-owned John Deere farm equipment dealer, bought the property and renovated the building into its corporate sales office.