Montpelier’s west-side downtown approach changed over time through a series of prominent commercial buildings. The Brennan-Davis Building, built for Edward Burgoyne by Jacob Tueller and Sons before 1899, was first used as a general mercantile store with Doctor Poynter’s drug store on the ground floor and apartments above; after surviving the 1905 fire that destroyed stores across the street when wet blankets were placed at its windows, it remained one of Montpelier’s largest stores before later becoming Boise Payette, a lumber and hardware business that continued in a similar trade as True Value Hardware. The Hoff Hotel, built in 1887 by Sam McCart as the Arcade Hotel, was bought in 1891 by Henry W. Hoff, renamed the Hoff Hotel, and later sold to Harrison Hess and renamed the Rose Hotel. In 1902, the Cooperative Wagon and Machine Company and the Consolidated Implement Company, each in business for 15 years, merged as the Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company; their new building, completed soon after March 14, 1902, became known as the Coni building and focused on freighting, wagons, and farm implements, with Ellis Straw managing it for years, and the building later became home to Walton Feed, Inc. The Frank Jones Building began as Frank J. Jones’s meat market; after he first built a one-story structure and later added a second story, the building also included Will Crockett’s grocery on the east side, basement meat market and freezer lockers, and upstairs uses as a dance floor and later a bowling alley, while Jones supplied the store from his ranch and slaughter house west of the railroad tracks and county women traded one-pound blocks of butter for meat or groceries. Built in 1912, the JC Penney Building soon housed the sixth store opened by the company, with a 10-room hotel upstairs serving railroad workers; although retail sales closed in the 1980s and catalog sales continued under franchise, it remained the second oldest continuing operational JC Penney in the world. Also built in 1912, the Burrell and Thief building later included the Olsen brothers and, after 1958, housed TriState Incorporated, a long-running general store and community hub, while retaining much of its original appearance, including brick walls one foot thick at the base, hardwood floors, and a tin stamped ceiling.