A.J. Hunt opened a building at this site as a saloon in 1895, and when the saloon closed three years later, the building became a series of medical facilities. In 1898, James A. Board and Ebenezer H. Chorn moved their pharmacy to this location. In 1911, C.A. Smith and sons purchased the building, and the Smith family’s ownership was nearly unbroken for 100 years. Various members of the Board and Chorn families operated the pharmacy until 1925, and later other pharmacists and drug stores utilized the building. Prominent local doctors had offices in the back of the pharmacy, and for more than one hundred years the site provided medical services for the people of Mansfield.