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Sunday, September 07, 2003

Now for a little history lesson. This information is from the building owner. The home of the Wilde Roast Cafe started out as a hotel around 1900. The hotel is the southern rectangular part (right side of picture)of building. In the 1950's a fire took out the upper floors of the hotel, so they were taken off and a roof was placed over the lobby. The tin ceiling is still up, but very damaged. It will be removed. Then in the 1960's the triangular portion of the building was added and the space was used for marine repair and sales. I guess boat sales was booming in that time. In 1998 the marine business moved and the space has been empty. In the soon future the building will be squared off to home four new businesses.....The WIlde Roast Cafe, Query Bookstore, and two undecided.

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oscar@wilderoastcafe.com