Jacob Anthony, a prominent community businessman, built the Anthony House in 1857. After a fire destroyed the large hotel in 1860, he built the United States Hotel on the same site in 1861. That hotel also burned in 1879. The Smith-Empie-Smith building, partly on the site of both earlier hotels, was built as a department store in 1910 and in the second half of the 1900's housed a succession of businesses including Hayes' variety store and soda fountain, a mail order store, and Smile's Jewelry factory and gift shop-coffeehouse with entertainment. On its south side stood a row of three buildings that at various times contained guestrooms, shops, a luncheonette, the Sharon Springs Post Office, and the telephone office and switchboard; in 1995, the three buildings on the left in the photo were demolished because of severe deterioration. Main Street was also the site of the original Chalybeate Temple. The iron-rich spring, pronounced "ka-lib-e-at," was discovered and commercialized by Leroy Eldredge in the 1850's, and its water was bottled and sold as a cure for blood ailments such as anemia. The temple shown there was built behind the Smith-Empie-Smith building in 1910. A large swimming pool built several yards from the Chalybeate Temple was supplied with fresh spring water from the hill behind it and remained in use until the Second World War. In 1994, the Sharon Springs Citizens Council of the Arts took ownership of the property and began developing a community park, including restoration of the temple and pool house.