The Cross-Abbott Company, which dealt exclusively in groceries, was one of the village's thirteen thriving wholesale businesses in 1903. Founded by Charles A. Cross and Charles C. Abbott in 1894, the firm was housed in an Italianate Revival structure built on land the two men leased from Vermont Central Railroad. The partnership joined forces with the Red and White Corporation in 1948, and its continued success enabled the enterprise to build a modern facility in Hartford Village nearly a decade later. After Cross-Abbott vacated the property in 1957, White River Paper Company, another wholesale distribution concern, took possession. The original storefront is obscured by a shed-roofed loading dock, but the characteristic quoins on the corners of the building remain a prominent architectural feature.