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Show ;f, " " 1 i ht- t ; x' t ; 1 . 2- li lrrrr 'JZ-"11 N ... , - : r f ; . . , ..x..,fi. ..fy J z::::: nsx-r " - - i Old Chapel Becomes Reception Center Ami'rii'an Koi'k's okl socoiut ward building is Inking mi a tu'v life anil a now rnlo as il is being ronovalod in4o a iwoplion center and dot'larod a hisiorii'al silo by Hr CJaroth Condors. Tin- building, aflor boing olosod up iwo years ago. has faced demolition and decay, but now has a t'ulure. The Condors are turning il into a "amiplete wedding center" where a ample may come and gel out fitted for , j their wedding with everything from r the reception hall to the flowers. I The cultural hall is being tran-I tran-I sferred into a parly room; all l he downstairs rooms are going lo be rented in businesses that help make I weddings go; photographers, I caterers, florists. The Condors plan lo call their en-I en-I lerprise "The Old Chapel Reception I Center" and in a dual role as landlord and pressmen, intend to run the "Old Chapel Print Shop" as well. "We'll have a whole series of little I shops thai will serve a bride and " groom lo every need of I heir wedding," wed-ding," savs Gareth Conder. "They 9fi : won't even have lo leave Unbuilding." Un-building." Condor plans lo have the cullural .hall ready by I lie end of November and christen il with rentals lo families who waul lo hold Christmas parlies I hero. By March he says the entire facility should be luncliomng. Between now and then. Condor, his wile Myrna, and their family have lots lo do. TJu-y are renovaling the slruclure primarily by themselves. The family lives in l he second story of I he old oluirchhouse. "Right now our sous are cleaning the cullural.hall coiling," says Myrna Condor. "It "s become a real family project." Myrna and her sisler-iu-law, Marge, are spearheading I he move lo see the old building declared a historical site. They only have a few steps left before that's a reality, as they obtained essential Ilisiorial Preservation zoning last week from American Fork City last week. They have a few facts lo ferret out about the building's original history ' and then 1 1 icy submit their forms lo tin- Slale Historical Society.' Myrna ( 'oik lor says she has already been I old the building "should be and deserves to lie a preserved site," by (ualilied expoi'ls. "We have learned a lol through the help of some of Hie cily's older oil i.ens and now just have a couple of questions loll," noles Mrs. (.'under. "The Historical Society wants lo know Ihings like who owned I In: land before the church was built in l.r(), and who the' original archilecl was." "Il is really coining logolher for us and we're optimistic." Mrs. Condor has dreamed of lur-ning lur-ning an old church into a wedding coiiler since she was a girl. When Garelh's sisler was assigned lo find an old building in Utah worthy of the historical designation as a college class project, she and Myrna gol clicking. "We've just about gol Ihe package complete now," adds Mrs. Conder. "We're excited." |
