At 213 South Main Street, Harrisonville Telephone Company established its headquarters in 1905, first occupying one-fourth of the building while the rest was apartments. As the company expanded, it occupied the entire building by the early 1960s, added the second floor of 211 South Main Street in 1969, took most of 211 in 1979, and occupied that entire building by 1985. In 1992, the company acquired all the property from 211 South Main to 201 South Main, and in 1993 razed the entire block to make way for its corporate offices. Nearby properties along South Main Street had long housed a range of local businesses. At 211 South Main Street, Heer’s store stood in 1852, and in 1907 E. Fred and Clara Schulmeister moved Schulmeister’s Bakery there, where it operated with a coal-fired oven and the family residence. After the Schulmeisters died, the bakery continued as Waterloo Bakery under F. Robert Schulmeister and Clara Schulmeister Gentsch, becoming especially known for peanut cake and a penny candy counter, before closing in 1978. At 209 South Main Street, barber shops operated from at least 1932 through 1978, followed by law offices before Harrisonville Telephone Company took occupancy in 1985. At 205-207 South Main Street, the Myers sisters ran a dry goods business before 1947, Joseph Tucker reopened it as Tucker’s Dry Goods and continued until about 1966, and Ziebold Home Utilities then relocated there after a gas explosion on Mill Street in April 1966 destroyed its previous building, remaining until 1988, after which R.A. Miller Insurance and Monroe Realty moved in. At 201-203 South Main Street, John Moeller operated a cobbler shop in the late 1800s and early 1900s, followed by O.A. Robyn’s Confectionery. After buying the property in 1919, Otis J. Rexroth renamed it Rex’s Confectionary and ran it until retiring in 1966; it included a soda fountain, homemade ice cream, and a separate bar for adults, was known for hamburgers, and became a gathering place during snowy weather when the city blocked off Third Street for sled riding. The upper floor also housed Glen Fults’s photography studio for a time before becoming an apartment, and after Rexroth’s retirement the business continued under several proprietors as Rex’s Corner and was also known in the 1980s as Mary Jo’s Cafe.