In the early 1900s, Max Videto, Sr., proprietor of the store on Teft Road, turned the old blacksmith shop south of the store into a slaughterhouse so he could sell both groceries and meat. In 1919 Clarence Cook converted the slaughterhouse into a garage, the first automobile sales agency in Spring Arbor, and William Aylesworth of Snyder Station bought a Model T Ford from him for $420. When the Harold Shearer family owned the corner store and restaurant, they changed the garage building back into a blacksmith shop, where Jim Snyder developed his skill of turning scrap metal into works of art. In 1948 William Houghtby opened a lumberyard and tore down the blacksmith shop, and in 1960 Leroy Holton, who had worked for Bill during his school days, bought the lumberyard. North of the store stood a horse barn and a small shed that became an ice house during Oney Sidwell's ownership from 1920 to 1943. When the store was torn down in 1971, tunnels leading to these outbuildings from the underground railroad days became visible.