In 1845, Thomas Ewing operated a general store at the corner of present-day Crawford Avenue and Pittsburgh Street in downtown Connellsville, where political discussion grew so hot and sulphurous that the intersection became known as Brimstone Corner, a name it still carries. The Title and Trust Company of Western, Pennsylvania building, also called the Brimstone Building, was built there of buff Pompeian brick in the Italian Renaissance style and was occupied on May 1, 1901; it rose five stories and was built to be fireproof throughout. Across from it, the Colonial National Bank opened on June 15, 1906, in a Classic Revival building of pure white marble and pink Milford granite. On the northwest corner of Crawford Avenue and Pittsburgh Street, the eight-story Second National Bank Building, known as Brimstone Corner's skyscraper, was built in 1905 with an all-steel skeleton, a two-story front lobby, and a depth of 165 feet, and it once housed medical, dental, law, insurance, and real estate offices before being demolished in 1983. For Connellsville's 1906 centennial, the H. C. Frick Coke Company erected a huge Coal and Coke Arch at Brimstone Corner using coke from the Trotter, Leisenring Number 1, and Davidson plants; the arch was electrically illuminated and cost more than one thousand dollars.