The construction policies and practices of the planing mill company were not dictated directly by Bare, but through a partnership, as most of his business operations were arranged. Nonetheless, there appears to have been a cohesive similarity of architectural taste and purpose at work here whose basic aesthetic must have been set by Bare and his association of partners, managers and builders. Bare also may be credited with creating the town's first subdivision of 50 lots in 1865. Given the extent and central location of his original holding from the Mill Seat Tract, and the fact that most of the town's pre-1944 building lots are to , Bare's ability to shape the size and extent of development in Roaring Spring was substantial.