Recycling Old Churches
There seems to be a trend to turn old churches into pubs or restaurants.
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Here is another, Church Brew Works:
In fact, there is a company McMenamins, that is well known for remaking old building originally built for another purpose into thriving restaurant brew pubs.
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Unique locations
There are fifty-eight McMenamins sites and many of its locations are renovated historical properties; as of June 2004, nine are on theNational Register of Historic Places:
- a former elementary school (Kennedy School),
- a movie theater built by Universal Studios (The Bagdad Theater and Pub),
- a building once used by the Church of Sweden as a Swedish Evangelical Mission (Mission Theater),
- the site of a former general store once owned by Oregon's first state treasurer (Boon's Treasury),
- a saloon once used by Polish immigrants to plan what became the west coast's first Polish Catholic Church (White Eagle Saloon),
- a saloon and former brothel in downtown Centralia, Washington (Olympic Club Hotel),
- a pioneer homestead with an octagonal barn (Cornelius Pass Roadhouse),
- a former Multnomah County poor farm (Edgefield),
- a ballroom with a floating floor (The Crystal Ballroom),
- a classic old saloon in Olympia Washington called The Spar.
Other locations include a former Masonic retirement home, a building that was part of the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition and a former funeral home in North Portland.
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