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There seems to be a trend to turn old churches into pubs or restaurants.
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.
from Wiki:
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.
Prisons as luxury hotels? Believe it or not, some of the best in accommodation luxury around the globe occurs in former jails. Here are the best of the lot. I know I just posted on Liberty Hotel, but here are some others. The Four Seasons Group, synonymous with luxury hotels and resorts, took a century-old neoclassical Turkish prison in the heart of the old Istanbul and made it the most posh destination in the city. Once Sultanahmet Jail, the hotel is steps away from the Blue Mosque and Topkapi Palace. As the first jailhouse in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, the structure has great historical merit and was principally for writers, journalists, artists and intellectual dissidents about to stand trial at a nearby courthouse. In 1992, the impressive structure became a deluxe hotel, with contemporary glass additions connecting all the open courtyard buildings. It can accommodate 130 guests in 54 rooms and 11 suites. Built in 1859 in Cape Town, South Africa, the Breakwater prison was a long term facility for male convicts. It now serves as an ominous reminder of the city’s sketchy apartheid past, as the first prison to enact racial segregation. In addition, from 1926 to 1989, the Breakwater was a hostel for black dock workers. Thanks to the wonders of modern design however, Protea Hotels now operates it as a first-class luxury resort. The Lodge is a vibrant tourist attraction with castle-like ramparts on the glitzy Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, and accommodates guests in 300 comfortable and attractively furnished rooms. Built by a Norman Baron in 1071, this Oxford incarnation of the Malmaison Hotel chain was first a castle, then prison from 1888 till 1996. Redeveloped as a retail and heritage complex, with open courtyards and a luxurious hotel, it holds the distinction of being the first jail in the U.K. to undergo such a transformation. It welcomes guests in rooms, apartments, bars and restaurants, that at one time or another, were cells for prisoners. The Charles Street Jail was built in Boston between 1848 and 1851. With a blatantly non-secular cross design, immense rotunda and atrium, the prison was a gloomy house of incarceration. In 1937 a judge ruled that the prison violated the constitutional rights of prisoners and so, it was closed. Not until 1990 however. In 2007, the Liberty Hotel (operated by MTM Luxury Lodging) kept the historic structure almost intact, in a miraculous conversion into a 300-room luxury hotel. It’s one of the America’s most stunning and inspired “reuse” buildings. A famous building in Katajanokka - a district with some 4,000 inhabitants in Helsinki, Finland - was the former prison of record in southern Finland, functioning for 175 years (from 1837 to 2002). Later, the building was turned into Europe’s classiest prison hotel, admittedly a bit of a left-handed compliment. The 102-room facility is located in the center of the city, close to the Uspenski Cathedral, and is run by the Best Western chain. One of the available rooms was the cell of former President Risto Ryti, sent to the Katajanokka prison by the Soviet Union in 1945.Four Seasons Hotel - Istanbul
Breakwater Lodge
Images by ProteaOxford Malmaison Hotel, UK
Liberty Hotel - Boston
Hotel Katajanokka - Helsinki
Here's the Liberty hotel in Boston. Great use of an old jail.
One of the four restuarants/bars in it, aptly called "Clink"
Judy Fuller recycles, but she goes way beyond cans and bottles. TheWaukesha, Wisc., native converted a neighborhood "eyesore" into a beautiful eco-friendly home that also helps her raise money for charity. The city was planning to demolish an old, rusty water tower, nearly 40 feet tall and 50 feet around, that could hold 675,000 gallons of water. The tower had sat unused and neglected for years but the demolition would cost the city about $100,000. "So I walked up to the water department and said I wanted to buy it," Fuller said. For $1,000, Fuller became the owner of the giant tower in 2004. "The concrete had oxidized and it was scaling off the building and it was old porous, concrete [that] rebar was poking through," said Fuller, the owner of Pinnacle Building Inc. who exceeded her budget of $200,000 on the water tower project. After three years of drilling, painting and renovating, the water tower was transformed into a three-floor, 6,000-square-foot designer home that looks unlike any other in this community of 65,000 people. Taking it one step further, Fuller designed the whole house to be green, from its energy-efficient windows with shades and fans that keep it cool in summer to the radiant heat in the flooring. Fuller saw a chance to do even more with her home's innovative design. She opened the three-bedroom, four-bath home to the public for $5 tours and gives all proceeds from admission fees to charity. "On the first Saturday, 1,100 people came to see it," said Fuller, who has rehabbed other buildings in the area. Fuller's eco-innovation and fund-raising efforts have made her something of a local hero. Kathleen Strombon, who works for the Waukesha Memorial Hospital and helped organize the tours, said, "I think it's wonderful that people can take their creativity and put it to work for their local not-for-profits, and Judy really embraced the idea of opening her home."Woman Buys Water Tower for $1,000 and Transforms It Into Huge, Eco-Friendly Home
Judy Fuller bought a decripit water tower for $1,000 and turned it into a fabulous three-story eco-friendly home.(/ABC News)Tours Raise Money
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From Water Tower to Designer Home
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