In Greenville, the Knights and Ladies of the Maccabees, once a prominent social group, performed a drill routine in front of the former Jacobson's store at 314 to 318 South Lafayette Street, and the dirt streets in that photograph indicate it was taken before 1910, when street paving first occurred there. A later view around 1940 shows the same buildings, including the Slawson building at 300 South Lafayette Street, which appears in both photographs and was built in 1887 for George W. Slawson and housed a pharmacy for many years. On the southwest side of Washington Street, the present Greenville City Hall and Department of Public Safety building stands where the first fire station stood in 1872, and early mayor Judd Macomber played an important role in securing the fire wagon shown there. The addresses 317 to 323 South Lafayette Street long served travelers and guests: the Shearer Hotel and Tavern, built in 1848, was the first hotel on the site; Keith's Exchange Hotel occupied it next, appears in an 1873 photograph, and burned in 1887; Phelp's Hotel replaced it, then burned in 1982 and was torn down. A photograph from 1876 shows downtown Greenville from its point of origin at the intersection of Lafayette and Washington Streets, where the first public square was built, and when the city was platted on January 14, 1853, Greenville expanded north from that intersection. The Fargo and Belknap building at 330 to 332 South Lafayette, seen at the closest right in that view, was the first commercial brick building there, constructed in 1869 with bricks made from clay mined at Clay and Fairplains streets and fired in a kiln on Bracey Road.