Rankin's Hardware at 201 North Sibley had been the Rankin & Greenleaf Hardware, which started in April 1883, at another location. Rankin had bought out Greenleaf in November 1884. In May 1889, Charles Albert Greenleaf and William Grono moved their real estate business into a corner room at 109 North Sibley. From July 1889 to July 1893, the popular Brightwood Resort was across the lake on the south shore of Lake Ripley. Hiram Branham and Charles Albert Greenleaf owned and ran the resort. The Greenleafs, father and son, leased an elevator in September 1889. William Henry Greenleaf and his son Charles moved an office for their lumberyard to 214 North Sibley in the front in March 1895.