Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Peter Cooper, left, and Butch Jarschke at work on the restoration of the Any Occasion Banquet Hall and Odessa Record building.
Pedestrians may want to avoid the southwest corner at the intersection of First Avenue and Division Street for the next week or two, as phase one of a restoration project is underway. The corner building, owned by John and Michelle Melgren, is home to Any Occasion Banquet Hall and The Odessa Record offices.
The Melgrens have contracted with Peter Cooper of Coeur d’Alene, a specialist in brick walls and masonry, to remove layers of paint, replace decayed bricks, tuckpoint and then seal the walls with a protective layer.
The process is fairly complex. The outer layer of brick-colored latex paint...
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