Back to Pine Street and going up the west side of Front Street, we begin with the Schoonover Building.\ On this site was the first stone house in Philipsburg. Hardman Philips built it for the manager of the screw factory, Thomas Lever, who was brought here from England by Dr. Plumbe. From that time until the early 1900s, this was known as the stone corner. The current building has wonderful little turrets around the roofline. The first Schoonover Block, as it was called at the time, was built on this site in 1886 and destroyed by fire along with the Pierce Opera House in 1910. It looked nearly identical to the current building that was built in 1911; however, the original structure had only two stories, both with very high ceilings. It housed a shoe store and a fruit market on the first floor, and the Prudential Insurance office and Bell Telephone exchange on the second.