PUBLIC NOTICE OF MEETING Pursuant to Section 19.84, Wis. Stats., notice is hereby given to the public that a Special Meeting .of the PLAN COMMISSION of the City of De Pere will be held as follows: Date: TUESDAY, August 30, 2011 Time: 7:00 p.m, Place: De Pere City Hall, Second Floor, Council Chambers 335 S. Broadway Street, De Pere, Wisconsin 54115 AGENDA FOR SAID MEETING: Roll call. 1. Review the proposed elevations and materials for 401 Main Ave. Agent Pat Drury. 2. Review the CSM application for a two lot extraterritorial CSM in the Town of Lawrence. Surveyor: Mau. 3. Future agenda items. 4. Adjournment. Ken Pabich Director of Planning and Economic Development Notice is hereby given that a majority of the members of the Common Council of the City of De Pere may attend this meeting to gather information about a subject(s) over which they have decision- making responsibility. Any person wishing to attend this meeting who, because of disability, requires special accommodation should contact the City Administrator at 339-4044. AGENDA SENT TO: PLAN COMMISSION MEMBERS ALDERPERSONS BULLETIN BOARDS NEWS MEDIA DACC KEN PABICH TOWN OF LEDGEVIEW TOWN OF LAWRENCE TOWN OF ROCKLAND ITEM 1: PAT DRURY 1000 Crown Pointe Circle Suamico, WI 54173 SCHLEIS PROPERTIES 2744 MANITOWOC GREEN BAY, WI 54311 ITEM 2: STEVE BIEDA 400 SECURITY BLVD GREEN BAY, WI 54313 NEW CORNERSTONE HOLDING 1494 MIDVALLEY DR DEPEREWI54115
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PUBLIC NOTICE OF MEETING
Pursuant to Section 1984 Wis Stats notice is hereby given to the public that a Special Meeting of the PLAN COMMISSION of the City of De Pere will be held as follows
Date TUESDAY August 30 2011 Time 700 pm Place De Pere City Hall Second Floor Council Chambers
335 S Broadway Street De Pere Wisconsin 54115
AGENDA FOR SAID MEETING Roll call
1 Review the proposed elevations and materials for 401 Main Ave Agent Pat Drury
2 Review the CSM application for a two lot extraterritorial CSM in the Town of Lawrence Surveyor Mau
3 Future agenda items
4 Adjournment
Ken Pabich Director of Planning and Economic Development
Notice is hereby given that a majority of the members of the Common Council of the City of De Pere may attend this meeting to gather information about a subject(s) over which they have decisionshymaking responsibility
Any person wishing to attend this meeting who because of disability requires special accommodation should contact the City Administrator at 339-4044
AGENDA SENT TO PLAN COMMISSION MEMBERS ALDERPERSONS BULLETIN BOARDS NEWS MEDIA DACC KEN PABICH TOWN OF LEDGEVIEW TOWN OF LAWRENCE TOWN OF ROCKLAND
ITEM 1 PAT DRURY 1000 Crown Pointe Circle Suamico WI 54173 SCHLEIS PROPERTIES 2744 MANITOWOC GREEN BAY WI 54311
ITEM 2 STEVE BIEDA 400 SECURITY BLVD GREEN BAY WI 54313 NEW CORNERSTONE HOLDING 1494 MIDVALLEY DR DEPEREWI54115
City ofDe Pere Plan Commission StaffComments August 30 2011
Item 1 Review the proposed elevations and materials for 401 Main Ave Agent Pat Drury
Pat Drury is working with the owner to make interior and exterior changes to 401 Main Ave As part of the project they are looking to replace the existing facade on the building Based on research done by Mr Drury it was determined that a stamped metal product was originally used As part of the B-1 District metal would not be permitted unless approved the Plan Commission It is also not part of our Downtown design guidelines as an acceptable material The code states the following
Building design and construction requirements B-1 Central Business District B-2 General Business District B-3 Motor Vehicle Dependent Business District All buildings hereinafter constructed expanded remodeled or otherwise improved within these Districts shall be designed in such a manner so that it provides a basic harmony with and does not detractfrom the overall attractiveness ofsurrounding development and shall be constructed ofthe following materials 1) Brick 2) Concrete masonry Units shall be those generally described by the National Concrete Masonry
Association as customized architectural concrete masonry units or shall be broken faced brick type units with marble aggregate or splitface or broke offconcrete block There shall be no exposed concrete block on the exterior ofany building Any concrete masonry units that have a gray cement color shall be coated
3) Concrete may be poured-in-place tilt-up or precast Poured-in-place and tilt-up walls shall have a jinish ofstone a texture or a coating Textured finish except in special cases shall be coated Precast units which are not uniform in color shall be coated Coating shall be an approved cementatious or epoxy type with a ten (10) year minimum life expectancy
4) Natural stone 5) Any other material approved by the Plan Commission
Metal panels may be used only to accentuate or as ajinish material within these districts Any metal panel proposedfor use within these districts as ajinish material or to accentuate building shall be entirely coated with a colorfast abrasion and corrosion resistant long life (minimum of20 years) jinish that is resistant to chemicals withstands temperature extremes and has a low permeability Any material utilized to attach the metal panels to the building shall be concealed or the utilization of shadow panels or semi-concealedfastener panels with fasteners painted to match the panels shall be required
Recommendation At the time of this writing staff does not have a recommendation however there are several concerns that will be dIscussed at the meetmg
City ofDe Pere Plan Commission StaffComments August 302011
Item 2 Review the CSM application for a two lot extraterritorial CSM in the Town of Lawrence Surveyor Mau
Mau has submitted the CSM that creates two lots located on Mid Valley Dr in the Town of Lawrence which are 10 and 056 acres respectively Under our review the City ensures that a CSM meets the standards of Chapter 46 which governs our Platting and Division of Land The CSM does meet the City requirements
Recommendation Based on the findings above Staff would recommend approval of the CSM subject to the following
1 Approval be forwarded to the City Council for approval 2 CSM must meet all state and county requirements
CITY OF DE PERE Fee $ 30000
Receipt APPLICATION FOR
CSM REVIEW Date
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NOTE Please submit 1 hard copy and 1 PDF copy of the CSM if the property is located within the City or if the property is located within the extraterritorial jurisdiction
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A CSM Review is requested as authorized by the De Pere Municipal Code Chapter 46
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Certified Survey Map Part of Lot 2 of Volume 20 Cerlified Survey Maps page 05 Map No 355 I Doc No 1162t22 Brown County Records being in part of the
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Sheet One ofFour
Project No H-10588
Drawing No L-7958
SURVEYORS CERTIFICATE
I Steven M Bieda Registered land Surveyor S-2275 do hereby certify that I have surveyed divided and mopped port of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Ooc No 1162122 Brown County Records being in port of the Northeast 14 of the Southwest 14 Section 29 T23N-R20E in the Town of lawrence Brown County Wisconsin more fully described as follows
Commencing at the West 14 Corner Section 29 T23N-R20E thence S890445E 126613 feet along the North line of the Northwest 14 of the Southwest 14 said Section to the Northwest Corner of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Doc No 1162122 Brown County Records thence S384436E 15757 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot to the point of beginning thence S893135E 34946 feet to the Northeasterly line of said lot 2 thence S410354E 13367 feet along said line thence S4lr5606W 27639 feet along the Southerly line of said lot 2 also being the Northerly right of way line of USH 41 thence N3lr4436W 36571 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot 2 to the point of beginning
Parcel contains 67979 square feet 156 acres more or less Parcel subject to any easements and restrictions of record
That such plot is a correct representation of all the exterior boundaries of the land survey and the division thereof That I have mode such a survey land division and plot by the direction of the owners listed hereon That I have fully complied with the provisions of Chapter 236 section 23634 of the Wisconsin Statutes the Town of lawrence the City of De Pere and the Brown County Planning Commission in surveying dividing and mopping the some
August 04 2011 BROWN COUNlY PlANNING COMMISSION
Approved for the Brown County Plan Commission this day of 20 _
Peter Schleinz Senior Planner
CERTIFICATE FOR THE TOWN OF LAWRENCE
Approved for the Town of lawrence this day of 20__
Corrie Murphy Augustan Town Clerk
CERTIFICATE FOR THE CllY OF DE PERE
Approved for the City of PePere this day of 20__
Ken Pobich Director of Planning
TREASURERS CERTIFICATE
As duly elected Brown County Treasurer I hereby certify that the records in my office show no unredeemed taxes and no unpaid taxes or special assessments affecting any of the lands included in this Certified Survey Mop as of the dotes listed below
Kerry M Blaney Oote Brown County Treasurer
Sheet Two of Four
Project No H-I0588
Drawing No L-7958
UMITED LIABILITY COMPANy OWNERS CERTIfiCATE
New Cornerstone Holding LLC a Wisconsin limited liability company duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the lows of the Stole of Wisconsin does hereby certify that said limited liability company caused the easements to be granted and the shyland on this Certified Survey Mop to be surveyed divided dedicated and mopped as represented hereon New Comerstone Holding LLC does further certify that this Certified Survey Mop is required to be submitted to the Brawn County Planning Commission City of OePere and the Town of Lawrence for approval or objection in accordance with current Land Subdivision Ordinances
In Witness Whereof the said New Comerstone Holding LLC has caused these presents to be signed by Eric Johnson its Managing Member on this day of 2011
Eric Johnson Managing Member
Personally come before me this day of 20__ the above named Member of said Umited Uobility Company and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing instrument as such Member as the deed of said Limited Liability Company by its authority
My Commission Expires _ Brown County Wisconsin Notary Public
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August 04 2011
Sheet Three ofFour
Project No H-10588
Drawing No L-7958
1) Lots 1 cc 2 include weiland areas that may require permits from the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources Army Corps of Engineers Brown County Planning Commission or the local municipality Zoning Administrators Office prior to any development activity 2) The subject CSM is within Airport Zoning District middotCmiddot The Austin Stroubel International Airport Director sholl be contacted for review and approval prior to any development and land disturbing activities within Airport Zoning Districts 3) The property owner at the time of construction sholl implement the appropriate soil erosion control methods oullined in the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources applicable WONR Technical Standards to prevent soil erosion However if the Town at the time of construction has adopted a soil erosion control ordinance it sholl govem over this requirement This provision applies to any grading construction or installation-related activities 4) The wellonds are opproximote on Lots 1 cc 2 due to the large size of the lot and the locotion of the weiland and ESA The weiland and ESA boundary shell be properly identified by the affected landowner and delineated by the appropriate regulatory agency should any development on Lots 1 cc 2 occur near or within the weiland or ESA Any WONR-opproved weiland delineation reporlmop along with the approval tetter sholl be submilled to Brown County Planning Commission for verification
RESTRICTiVE COVENANTS
1) The land on all side and rear lot lines of all lots shell be graded by the property owner and maintained by the abutting property owners to provide for adequate drainage of surface water 2) No poles pedestals or buried coble are to be placed so as to disturb any survey stoke or obstruct vision along any lot lines or street line a disturbance of a survey stoke by anyone is a violation of section 23632 of the Wisconsin Statutes 3) A Shorelond Permit from the Brown County Zoning Administrators office is required for Lot(s) 1 cc 2 prior to any construction fill or grading activity within 300 feet of a stream 4) Lots 1 cc 2 contain on environmentally sensitive area (ESA) as defined in the Brown County Sewage Plan The ESA includes wellonds all land within 50 feet of wellonds 2 acres or greater f1oodwoy plus all land within 50 feet or 75 feet beyond the ordinary high water mark - whichever is greater all land within 100 feet of a navigable waterway all land within 25 feet of a non-navigable waterway steep slopes of 12 or greater associated with any water feature or buffer a 2D-foot setback from steep slopes of 20 or greater associated with a water feature or buffer Development and land disturbing activities are restricted in the ESA unless amendments are approved by the Brown County Planning Commission and the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources
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HISTORIC
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COUNTY PAT DRURY
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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BY THOMAS HOZWAOOWSflt1 If()LWild(lt~1greellbWpre8s~laLdllGIn
Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
II On the personality hes Iooklng for So many people open busishynesses in strip malls and
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you know its a necessarv evil Cheap effective high visibility But for certain businesses its not where you want to be Were a (1 acre development We( not a 40-ac1e one Ae doing something uuiuu l here Its about bringing ) lot of little eclectic shops h 1
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
middotIt is a phenomenal spot especially with the pond right in back Brebner said
After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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Reviving history
Schoolhouse will be reborn while
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By LeigJl Ann Wagner Kroening
The De Perc Journal
ikevultures swooping over their prey many developshyers havebeeneyeing the
property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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DRURY DESIGNS CUSTOM HOMES INC has purchased the old schoolshyhouse in Ledgeview Owner Pat Drury will restore tbe smiddotchoolhouse and use it for
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DIUlY said he approached Merline aboutpurchasing the property because he lives in the area andwantedoffice space nearby The old schoolhouseshyturned-residential homecaught his attention immediately
Iwanted something unique
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
nt know much of the buildings history bUI estimates it to be roughly 150 years old
After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
Merline is reaping another
Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
schoolhouse little jewel in project Old-time look adopted for center BY JIM KNEISZEL
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LEDGEVIEvV Builder Pat Drury hopes that the restored br-ick East middotTallev School will lx a nice 1itrlo jewel in the quickly develshyoping suburban center at Brown County G uid GV
On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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The school _- which Drury has restored to the tune of $250000 to $300000 -- will house his homeshybuilding business Drury Design Custom Homes as well as a shop where hell sell antiques and furnishyture
Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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negotiating to move a nearby historic building near the school to serveas an icecream shop
The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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City ofDe Pere Plan Commission StaffComments August 30 2011
Item 1 Review the proposed elevations and materials for 401 Main Ave Agent Pat Drury
Pat Drury is working with the owner to make interior and exterior changes to 401 Main Ave As part of the project they are looking to replace the existing facade on the building Based on research done by Mr Drury it was determined that a stamped metal product was originally used As part of the B-1 District metal would not be permitted unless approved the Plan Commission It is also not part of our Downtown design guidelines as an acceptable material The code states the following
Building design and construction requirements B-1 Central Business District B-2 General Business District B-3 Motor Vehicle Dependent Business District All buildings hereinafter constructed expanded remodeled or otherwise improved within these Districts shall be designed in such a manner so that it provides a basic harmony with and does not detractfrom the overall attractiveness ofsurrounding development and shall be constructed ofthe following materials 1) Brick 2) Concrete masonry Units shall be those generally described by the National Concrete Masonry
Association as customized architectural concrete masonry units or shall be broken faced brick type units with marble aggregate or splitface or broke offconcrete block There shall be no exposed concrete block on the exterior ofany building Any concrete masonry units that have a gray cement color shall be coated
3) Concrete may be poured-in-place tilt-up or precast Poured-in-place and tilt-up walls shall have a jinish ofstone a texture or a coating Textured finish except in special cases shall be coated Precast units which are not uniform in color shall be coated Coating shall be an approved cementatious or epoxy type with a ten (10) year minimum life expectancy
4) Natural stone 5) Any other material approved by the Plan Commission
Metal panels may be used only to accentuate or as ajinish material within these districts Any metal panel proposedfor use within these districts as ajinish material or to accentuate building shall be entirely coated with a colorfast abrasion and corrosion resistant long life (minimum of20 years) jinish that is resistant to chemicals withstands temperature extremes and has a low permeability Any material utilized to attach the metal panels to the building shall be concealed or the utilization of shadow panels or semi-concealedfastener panels with fasteners painted to match the panels shall be required
Recommendation At the time of this writing staff does not have a recommendation however there are several concerns that will be dIscussed at the meetmg
City ofDe Pere Plan Commission StaffComments August 302011
Item 2 Review the CSM application for a two lot extraterritorial CSM in the Town of Lawrence Surveyor Mau
Mau has submitted the CSM that creates two lots located on Mid Valley Dr in the Town of Lawrence which are 10 and 056 acres respectively Under our review the City ensures that a CSM meets the standards of Chapter 46 which governs our Platting and Division of Land The CSM does meet the City requirements
Recommendation Based on the findings above Staff would recommend approval of the CSM subject to the following
1 Approval be forwarded to the City Council for approval 2 CSM must meet all state and county requirements
CITY OF DE PERE Fee $ 30000
Receipt APPLICATION FOR
CSM REVIEW Date
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A CSM Review is requested as authorized by the De Pere Municipal Code Chapter 46
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Certified Survey Map Part of Lot 2 of Volume 20 Cerlified Survey Maps page 05 Map No 355 I Doc No 1162t22 Brown County Records being in part of the
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SURVEYORS CERTIFICATE
I Steven M Bieda Registered land Surveyor S-2275 do hereby certify that I have surveyed divided and mopped port of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Ooc No 1162122 Brown County Records being in port of the Northeast 14 of the Southwest 14 Section 29 T23N-R20E in the Town of lawrence Brown County Wisconsin more fully described as follows
Commencing at the West 14 Corner Section 29 T23N-R20E thence S890445E 126613 feet along the North line of the Northwest 14 of the Southwest 14 said Section to the Northwest Corner of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Doc No 1162122 Brown County Records thence S384436E 15757 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot to the point of beginning thence S893135E 34946 feet to the Northeasterly line of said lot 2 thence S410354E 13367 feet along said line thence S4lr5606W 27639 feet along the Southerly line of said lot 2 also being the Northerly right of way line of USH 41 thence N3lr4436W 36571 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot 2 to the point of beginning
Parcel contains 67979 square feet 156 acres more or less Parcel subject to any easements and restrictions of record
That such plot is a correct representation of all the exterior boundaries of the land survey and the division thereof That I have mode such a survey land division and plot by the direction of the owners listed hereon That I have fully complied with the provisions of Chapter 236 section 23634 of the Wisconsin Statutes the Town of lawrence the City of De Pere and the Brown County Planning Commission in surveying dividing and mopping the some
August 04 2011 BROWN COUNlY PlANNING COMMISSION
Approved for the Brown County Plan Commission this day of 20 _
Peter Schleinz Senior Planner
CERTIFICATE FOR THE TOWN OF LAWRENCE
Approved for the Town of lawrence this day of 20__
Corrie Murphy Augustan Town Clerk
CERTIFICATE FOR THE CllY OF DE PERE
Approved for the City of PePere this day of 20__
Ken Pobich Director of Planning
TREASURERS CERTIFICATE
As duly elected Brown County Treasurer I hereby certify that the records in my office show no unredeemed taxes and no unpaid taxes or special assessments affecting any of the lands included in this Certified Survey Mop as of the dotes listed below
Kerry M Blaney Oote Brown County Treasurer
Sheet Two of Four
Project No H-I0588
Drawing No L-7958
UMITED LIABILITY COMPANy OWNERS CERTIfiCATE
New Cornerstone Holding LLC a Wisconsin limited liability company duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the lows of the Stole of Wisconsin does hereby certify that said limited liability company caused the easements to be granted and the shyland on this Certified Survey Mop to be surveyed divided dedicated and mopped as represented hereon New Comerstone Holding LLC does further certify that this Certified Survey Mop is required to be submitted to the Brawn County Planning Commission City of OePere and the Town of Lawrence for approval or objection in accordance with current Land Subdivision Ordinances
In Witness Whereof the said New Comerstone Holding LLC has caused these presents to be signed by Eric Johnson its Managing Member on this day of 2011
Eric Johnson Managing Member
Personally come before me this day of 20__ the above named Member of said Umited Uobility Company and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing instrument as such Member as the deed of said Limited Liability Company by its authority
My Commission Expires _ Brown County Wisconsin Notary Public
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August 04 2011
Sheet Three ofFour
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1) Lots 1 cc 2 include weiland areas that may require permits from the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources Army Corps of Engineers Brown County Planning Commission or the local municipality Zoning Administrators Office prior to any development activity 2) The subject CSM is within Airport Zoning District middotCmiddot The Austin Stroubel International Airport Director sholl be contacted for review and approval prior to any development and land disturbing activities within Airport Zoning Districts 3) The property owner at the time of construction sholl implement the appropriate soil erosion control methods oullined in the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources applicable WONR Technical Standards to prevent soil erosion However if the Town at the time of construction has adopted a soil erosion control ordinance it sholl govem over this requirement This provision applies to any grading construction or installation-related activities 4) The wellonds are opproximote on Lots 1 cc 2 due to the large size of the lot and the locotion of the weiland and ESA The weiland and ESA boundary shell be properly identified by the affected landowner and delineated by the appropriate regulatory agency should any development on Lots 1 cc 2 occur near or within the weiland or ESA Any WONR-opproved weiland delineation reporlmop along with the approval tetter sholl be submilled to Brown County Planning Commission for verification
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1) The land on all side and rear lot lines of all lots shell be graded by the property owner and maintained by the abutting property owners to provide for adequate drainage of surface water 2) No poles pedestals or buried coble are to be placed so as to disturb any survey stoke or obstruct vision along any lot lines or street line a disturbance of a survey stoke by anyone is a violation of section 23632 of the Wisconsin Statutes 3) A Shorelond Permit from the Brown County Zoning Administrators office is required for Lot(s) 1 cc 2 prior to any construction fill or grading activity within 300 feet of a stream 4) Lots 1 cc 2 contain on environmentally sensitive area (ESA) as defined in the Brown County Sewage Plan The ESA includes wellonds all land within 50 feet of wellonds 2 acres or greater f1oodwoy plus all land within 50 feet or 75 feet beyond the ordinary high water mark - whichever is greater all land within 100 feet of a navigable waterway all land within 25 feet of a non-navigable waterway steep slopes of 12 or greater associated with any water feature or buffer a 2D-foot setback from steep slopes of 20 or greater associated with a water feature or buffer Development and land disturbing activities are restricted in the ESA unless amendments are approved by the Brown County Planning Commission and the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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BY THOMAS HOZWAOOWSflt1 If()LWild(lt~1greellbWpre8s~laLdllGIn
Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
II On the personality hes Iooklng for So many people open busishynesses in strip malls and
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you know its a necessarv evil Cheap effective high visibility But for certain businesses its not where you want to be Were a (1 acre development We( not a 40-ac1e one Ae doing something uuiuu l here Its about bringing ) lot of little eclectic shops h 1
one spot our little corni off (Brown County) Go
II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
middotIt is a phenomenal spot especially with the pond right in back Brebner said
After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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DIUlY said he approached Merline aboutpurchasing the property because he lives in the area andwantedoffice space nearby The old schoolhouseshyturned-residential homecaught his attention immediately
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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negotiating to move a nearby historic building near the school to serveas an icecream shop
The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
The 1909one-room Drury brick school now
serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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City ofDe Pere Plan Commission StaffComments August 302011
Item 2 Review the CSM application for a two lot extraterritorial CSM in the Town of Lawrence Surveyor Mau
Mau has submitted the CSM that creates two lots located on Mid Valley Dr in the Town of Lawrence which are 10 and 056 acres respectively Under our review the City ensures that a CSM meets the standards of Chapter 46 which governs our Platting and Division of Land The CSM does meet the City requirements
Recommendation Based on the findings above Staff would recommend approval of the CSM subject to the following
1 Approval be forwarded to the City Council for approval 2 CSM must meet all state and county requirements
CITY OF DE PERE Fee $ 30000
Receipt APPLICATION FOR
CSM REVIEW Date
Please prinl or type using black ink for duplicating purposes
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A CSM Review is requested as authorized by the De Pere Municipal Code Chapter 46
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Certified Survey Map Part of Lot 2 of Volume 20 Cerlified Survey Maps page 05 Map No 355 I Doc No 1162t22 Brown County Records being in part of the
Northeast II4-Southwesl 14 Section 29 T2IN-R20E in IheTown of Lawrence Brown County Wisconsin
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Sheet One ofFour
Project No H-10588
Drawing No L-7958
SURVEYORS CERTIFICATE
I Steven M Bieda Registered land Surveyor S-2275 do hereby certify that I have surveyed divided and mopped port of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Ooc No 1162122 Brown County Records being in port of the Northeast 14 of the Southwest 14 Section 29 T23N-R20E in the Town of lawrence Brown County Wisconsin more fully described as follows
Commencing at the West 14 Corner Section 29 T23N-R20E thence S890445E 126613 feet along the North line of the Northwest 14 of the Southwest 14 said Section to the Northwest Corner of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Doc No 1162122 Brown County Records thence S384436E 15757 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot to the point of beginning thence S893135E 34946 feet to the Northeasterly line of said lot 2 thence S410354E 13367 feet along said line thence S4lr5606W 27639 feet along the Southerly line of said lot 2 also being the Northerly right of way line of USH 41 thence N3lr4436W 36571 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot 2 to the point of beginning
Parcel contains 67979 square feet 156 acres more or less Parcel subject to any easements and restrictions of record
That such plot is a correct representation of all the exterior boundaries of the land survey and the division thereof That I have mode such a survey land division and plot by the direction of the owners listed hereon That I have fully complied with the provisions of Chapter 236 section 23634 of the Wisconsin Statutes the Town of lawrence the City of De Pere and the Brown County Planning Commission in surveying dividing and mopping the some
August 04 2011 BROWN COUNlY PlANNING COMMISSION
Approved for the Brown County Plan Commission this day of 20 _
Peter Schleinz Senior Planner
CERTIFICATE FOR THE TOWN OF LAWRENCE
Approved for the Town of lawrence this day of 20__
Corrie Murphy Augustan Town Clerk
CERTIFICATE FOR THE CllY OF DE PERE
Approved for the City of PePere this day of 20__
Ken Pobich Director of Planning
TREASURERS CERTIFICATE
As duly elected Brown County Treasurer I hereby certify that the records in my office show no unredeemed taxes and no unpaid taxes or special assessments affecting any of the lands included in this Certified Survey Mop as of the dotes listed below
Kerry M Blaney Oote Brown County Treasurer
Sheet Two of Four
Project No H-I0588
Drawing No L-7958
UMITED LIABILITY COMPANy OWNERS CERTIfiCATE
New Cornerstone Holding LLC a Wisconsin limited liability company duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the lows of the Stole of Wisconsin does hereby certify that said limited liability company caused the easements to be granted and the shyland on this Certified Survey Mop to be surveyed divided dedicated and mopped as represented hereon New Comerstone Holding LLC does further certify that this Certified Survey Mop is required to be submitted to the Brawn County Planning Commission City of OePere and the Town of Lawrence for approval or objection in accordance with current Land Subdivision Ordinances
In Witness Whereof the said New Comerstone Holding LLC has caused these presents to be signed by Eric Johnson its Managing Member on this day of 2011
Eric Johnson Managing Member
Personally come before me this day of 20__ the above named Member of said Umited Uobility Company and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing instrument as such Member as the deed of said Limited Liability Company by its authority
My Commission Expires _ Brown County Wisconsin Notary Public
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August 04 2011
Sheet Three ofFour
Project No H-10588
Drawing No L-7958
1) Lots 1 cc 2 include weiland areas that may require permits from the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources Army Corps of Engineers Brown County Planning Commission or the local municipality Zoning Administrators Office prior to any development activity 2) The subject CSM is within Airport Zoning District middotCmiddot The Austin Stroubel International Airport Director sholl be contacted for review and approval prior to any development and land disturbing activities within Airport Zoning Districts 3) The property owner at the time of construction sholl implement the appropriate soil erosion control methods oullined in the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources applicable WONR Technical Standards to prevent soil erosion However if the Town at the time of construction has adopted a soil erosion control ordinance it sholl govem over this requirement This provision applies to any grading construction or installation-related activities 4) The wellonds are opproximote on Lots 1 cc 2 due to the large size of the lot and the locotion of the weiland and ESA The weiland and ESA boundary shell be properly identified by the affected landowner and delineated by the appropriate regulatory agency should any development on Lots 1 cc 2 occur near or within the weiland or ESA Any WONR-opproved weiland delineation reporlmop along with the approval tetter sholl be submilled to Brown County Planning Commission for verification
RESTRICTiVE COVENANTS
1) The land on all side and rear lot lines of all lots shell be graded by the property owner and maintained by the abutting property owners to provide for adequate drainage of surface water 2) No poles pedestals or buried coble are to be placed so as to disturb any survey stoke or obstruct vision along any lot lines or street line a disturbance of a survey stoke by anyone is a violation of section 23632 of the Wisconsin Statutes 3) A Shorelond Permit from the Brown County Zoning Administrators office is required for Lot(s) 1 cc 2 prior to any construction fill or grading activity within 300 feet of a stream 4) Lots 1 cc 2 contain on environmentally sensitive area (ESA) as defined in the Brown County Sewage Plan The ESA includes wellonds all land within 50 feet of wellonds 2 acres or greater f1oodwoy plus all land within 50 feet or 75 feet beyond the ordinary high water mark - whichever is greater all land within 100 feet of a navigable waterway all land within 25 feet of a non-navigable waterway steep slopes of 12 or greater associated with any water feature or buffer a 2D-foot setback from steep slopes of 20 or greater associated with a water feature or buffer Development and land disturbing activities are restricted in the ESA unless amendments are approved by the Brown County Planning Commission and the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources
Office of heRegister ofDeeds BrownCounty Wisconsin
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HISTORIC
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
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er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
middotIt is a phenomenal spot especially with the pond right in back Brebner said
After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
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DRURY DESIGNS CUSTOM HOMES INC has purchased the old schoolshyhouse in Ledgeview Owner Pat Drury will restore tbe smiddotchoolhouse and use it for
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DIUlY said he approached Merline aboutpurchasing the property because he lives in the area andwantedoffice space nearby The old schoolhouseshyturned-residential homecaught his attention immediately
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
Merline whoraised three
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
Merline is reaping another
Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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LEDGEVIEvV Builder Pat Drury hopes that the restored br-ick East middotTallev School will lx a nice 1itrlo jewel in the quickly develshyoping suburban center at Brown County G uid GV
On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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The school _- which Drury has restored to the tune of $250000 to $300000 -- will house his homeshybuilding business Drury Design Custom Homes as well as a shop where hell sell antiques and furnishyture
Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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negotiating to move a nearby historic building near the school to serveas an icecream shop
The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
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that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
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passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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I Steven M Bieda Registered land Surveyor S-2275 do hereby certify that I have surveyed divided and mopped port of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Ooc No 1162122 Brown County Records being in port of the Northeast 14 of the Southwest 14 Section 29 T23N-R20E in the Town of lawrence Brown County Wisconsin more fully described as follows
Commencing at the West 14 Corner Section 29 T23N-R20E thence S890445E 126613 feet along the North line of the Northwest 14 of the Southwest 14 said Section to the Northwest Corner of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Doc No 1162122 Brown County Records thence S384436E 15757 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot to the point of beginning thence S893135E 34946 feet to the Northeasterly line of said lot 2 thence S410354E 13367 feet along said line thence S4lr5606W 27639 feet along the Southerly line of said lot 2 also being the Northerly right of way line of USH 41 thence N3lr4436W 36571 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot 2 to the point of beginning
Parcel contains 67979 square feet 156 acres more or less Parcel subject to any easements and restrictions of record
That such plot is a correct representation of all the exterior boundaries of the land survey and the division thereof That I have mode such a survey land division and plot by the direction of the owners listed hereon That I have fully complied with the provisions of Chapter 236 section 23634 of the Wisconsin Statutes the Town of lawrence the City of De Pere and the Brown County Planning Commission in surveying dividing and mopping the some
August 04 2011 BROWN COUNlY PlANNING COMMISSION
Approved for the Brown County Plan Commission this day of 20 _
Peter Schleinz Senior Planner
CERTIFICATE FOR THE TOWN OF LAWRENCE
Approved for the Town of lawrence this day of 20__
Corrie Murphy Augustan Town Clerk
CERTIFICATE FOR THE CllY OF DE PERE
Approved for the City of PePere this day of 20__
Ken Pobich Director of Planning
TREASURERS CERTIFICATE
As duly elected Brown County Treasurer I hereby certify that the records in my office show no unredeemed taxes and no unpaid taxes or special assessments affecting any of the lands included in this Certified Survey Mop as of the dotes listed below
Kerry M Blaney Oote Brown County Treasurer
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UMITED LIABILITY COMPANy OWNERS CERTIfiCATE
New Cornerstone Holding LLC a Wisconsin limited liability company duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the lows of the Stole of Wisconsin does hereby certify that said limited liability company caused the easements to be granted and the shyland on this Certified Survey Mop to be surveyed divided dedicated and mopped as represented hereon New Comerstone Holding LLC does further certify that this Certified Survey Mop is required to be submitted to the Brawn County Planning Commission City of OePere and the Town of Lawrence for approval or objection in accordance with current Land Subdivision Ordinances
In Witness Whereof the said New Comerstone Holding LLC has caused these presents to be signed by Eric Johnson its Managing Member on this day of 2011
Eric Johnson Managing Member
Personally come before me this day of 20__ the above named Member of said Umited Uobility Company and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing instrument as such Member as the deed of said Limited Liability Company by its authority
My Commission Expires _ Brown County Wisconsin Notary Public
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August 04 2011
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1) Lots 1 cc 2 include weiland areas that may require permits from the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources Army Corps of Engineers Brown County Planning Commission or the local municipality Zoning Administrators Office prior to any development activity 2) The subject CSM is within Airport Zoning District middotCmiddot The Austin Stroubel International Airport Director sholl be contacted for review and approval prior to any development and land disturbing activities within Airport Zoning Districts 3) The property owner at the time of construction sholl implement the appropriate soil erosion control methods oullined in the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources applicable WONR Technical Standards to prevent soil erosion However if the Town at the time of construction has adopted a soil erosion control ordinance it sholl govem over this requirement This provision applies to any grading construction or installation-related activities 4) The wellonds are opproximote on Lots 1 cc 2 due to the large size of the lot and the locotion of the weiland and ESA The weiland and ESA boundary shell be properly identified by the affected landowner and delineated by the appropriate regulatory agency should any development on Lots 1 cc 2 occur near or within the weiland or ESA Any WONR-opproved weiland delineation reporlmop along with the approval tetter sholl be submilled to Brown County Planning Commission for verification
RESTRICTiVE COVENANTS
1) The land on all side and rear lot lines of all lots shell be graded by the property owner and maintained by the abutting property owners to provide for adequate drainage of surface water 2) No poles pedestals or buried coble are to be placed so as to disturb any survey stoke or obstruct vision along any lot lines or street line a disturbance of a survey stoke by anyone is a violation of section 23632 of the Wisconsin Statutes 3) A Shorelond Permit from the Brown County Zoning Administrators office is required for Lot(s) 1 cc 2 prior to any construction fill or grading activity within 300 feet of a stream 4) Lots 1 cc 2 contain on environmentally sensitive area (ESA) as defined in the Brown County Sewage Plan The ESA includes wellonds all land within 50 feet of wellonds 2 acres or greater f1oodwoy plus all land within 50 feet or 75 feet beyond the ordinary high water mark - whichever is greater all land within 100 feet of a navigable waterway all land within 25 feet of a non-navigable waterway steep slopes of 12 or greater associated with any water feature or buffer a 2D-foot setback from steep slopes of 20 or greater associated with a water feature or buffer Development and land disturbing activities are restricted in the ESA unless amendments are approved by the Brown County Planning Commission and the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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BY THOMAS HOZWAOOWSflt1 If()LWild(lt~1greellbWpre8s~laLdllGIn
Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
middotIt is a phenomenal spot especially with the pond right in back Brebner said
After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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negotiating to move a nearby historic building near the school to serveas an icecream shop
The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Certified Survey Map Part of Lot 2 of Volume 20 Cerlified Survey Maps page 05 Map No 355 I Doc No 1162t22 Brown County Records being in part of the
Northeast II4-Southwesl 14 Section 29 T2IN-R20E in IheTown of Lawrence Brown County Wisconsin
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Sheet One ofFour
Project No H-10588
Drawing No L-7958
SURVEYORS CERTIFICATE
I Steven M Bieda Registered land Surveyor S-2275 do hereby certify that I have surveyed divided and mopped port of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Ooc No 1162122 Brown County Records being in port of the Northeast 14 of the Southwest 14 Section 29 T23N-R20E in the Town of lawrence Brown County Wisconsin more fully described as follows
Commencing at the West 14 Corner Section 29 T23N-R20E thence S890445E 126613 feet along the North line of the Northwest 14 of the Southwest 14 said Section to the Northwest Corner of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Doc No 1162122 Brown County Records thence S384436E 15757 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot to the point of beginning thence S893135E 34946 feet to the Northeasterly line of said lot 2 thence S410354E 13367 feet along said line thence S4lr5606W 27639 feet along the Southerly line of said lot 2 also being the Northerly right of way line of USH 41 thence N3lr4436W 36571 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot 2 to the point of beginning
Parcel contains 67979 square feet 156 acres more or less Parcel subject to any easements and restrictions of record
That such plot is a correct representation of all the exterior boundaries of the land survey and the division thereof That I have mode such a survey land division and plot by the direction of the owners listed hereon That I have fully complied with the provisions of Chapter 236 section 23634 of the Wisconsin Statutes the Town of lawrence the City of De Pere and the Brown County Planning Commission in surveying dividing and mopping the some
August 04 2011 BROWN COUNlY PlANNING COMMISSION
Approved for the Brown County Plan Commission this day of 20 _
Peter Schleinz Senior Planner
CERTIFICATE FOR THE TOWN OF LAWRENCE
Approved for the Town of lawrence this day of 20__
Corrie Murphy Augustan Town Clerk
CERTIFICATE FOR THE CllY OF DE PERE
Approved for the City of PePere this day of 20__
Ken Pobich Director of Planning
TREASURERS CERTIFICATE
As duly elected Brown County Treasurer I hereby certify that the records in my office show no unredeemed taxes and no unpaid taxes or special assessments affecting any of the lands included in this Certified Survey Mop as of the dotes listed below
Kerry M Blaney Oote Brown County Treasurer
Sheet Two of Four
Project No H-I0588
Drawing No L-7958
UMITED LIABILITY COMPANy OWNERS CERTIfiCATE
New Cornerstone Holding LLC a Wisconsin limited liability company duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the lows of the Stole of Wisconsin does hereby certify that said limited liability company caused the easements to be granted and the shyland on this Certified Survey Mop to be surveyed divided dedicated and mopped as represented hereon New Comerstone Holding LLC does further certify that this Certified Survey Mop is required to be submitted to the Brawn County Planning Commission City of OePere and the Town of Lawrence for approval or objection in accordance with current Land Subdivision Ordinances
In Witness Whereof the said New Comerstone Holding LLC has caused these presents to be signed by Eric Johnson its Managing Member on this day of 2011
Eric Johnson Managing Member
Personally come before me this day of 20__ the above named Member of said Umited Uobility Company and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing instrument as such Member as the deed of said Limited Liability Company by its authority
My Commission Expires _ Brown County Wisconsin Notary Public
STATE Of WISCONSIN ) ) SS
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August 04 2011
Sheet Three ofFour
Project No H-10588
Drawing No L-7958
1) Lots 1 cc 2 include weiland areas that may require permits from the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources Army Corps of Engineers Brown County Planning Commission or the local municipality Zoning Administrators Office prior to any development activity 2) The subject CSM is within Airport Zoning District middotCmiddot The Austin Stroubel International Airport Director sholl be contacted for review and approval prior to any development and land disturbing activities within Airport Zoning Districts 3) The property owner at the time of construction sholl implement the appropriate soil erosion control methods oullined in the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources applicable WONR Technical Standards to prevent soil erosion However if the Town at the time of construction has adopted a soil erosion control ordinance it sholl govem over this requirement This provision applies to any grading construction or installation-related activities 4) The wellonds are opproximote on Lots 1 cc 2 due to the large size of the lot and the locotion of the weiland and ESA The weiland and ESA boundary shell be properly identified by the affected landowner and delineated by the appropriate regulatory agency should any development on Lots 1 cc 2 occur near or within the weiland or ESA Any WONR-opproved weiland delineation reporlmop along with the approval tetter sholl be submilled to Brown County Planning Commission for verification
RESTRICTiVE COVENANTS
1) The land on all side and rear lot lines of all lots shell be graded by the property owner and maintained by the abutting property owners to provide for adequate drainage of surface water 2) No poles pedestals or buried coble are to be placed so as to disturb any survey stoke or obstruct vision along any lot lines or street line a disturbance of a survey stoke by anyone is a violation of section 23632 of the Wisconsin Statutes 3) A Shorelond Permit from the Brown County Zoning Administrators office is required for Lot(s) 1 cc 2 prior to any construction fill or grading activity within 300 feet of a stream 4) Lots 1 cc 2 contain on environmentally sensitive area (ESA) as defined in the Brown County Sewage Plan The ESA includes wellonds all land within 50 feet of wellonds 2 acres or greater f1oodwoy plus all land within 50 feet or 75 feet beyond the ordinary high water mark - whichever is greater all land within 100 feet of a navigable waterway all land within 25 feet of a non-navigable waterway steep slopes of 12 or greater associated with any water feature or buffer a 2D-foot setback from steep slopes of 20 or greater associated with a water feature or buffer Development and land disturbing activities are restricted in the ESA unless amendments are approved by the Brown County Planning Commission and the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources
Office of heRegister ofDeeds BrownCounty Wisconsin
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HISTORIC
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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BY THOMAS HOZWAOOWSflt1 If()LWild(lt~1greellbWpre8s~laLdllGIn
Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
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After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
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-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
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passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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I Steven M Bieda Registered land Surveyor S-2275 do hereby certify that I have surveyed divided and mopped port of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Ooc No 1162122 Brown County Records being in port of the Northeast 14 of the Southwest 14 Section 29 T23N-R20E in the Town of lawrence Brown County Wisconsin more fully described as follows
Commencing at the West 14 Corner Section 29 T23N-R20E thence S890445E 126613 feet along the North line of the Northwest 14 of the Southwest 14 said Section to the Northwest Corner of lot 2 of Volume 20 Certified Survey Mops page 05 Mop No 3551 Doc No 1162122 Brown County Records thence S384436E 15757 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot to the point of beginning thence S893135E 34946 feet to the Northeasterly line of said lot 2 thence S410354E 13367 feet along said line thence S4lr5606W 27639 feet along the Southerly line of said lot 2 also being the Northerly right of way line of USH 41 thence N3lr4436W 36571 feet along the Southwesterly line of said lot 2 to the point of beginning
Parcel contains 67979 square feet 156 acres more or less Parcel subject to any easements and restrictions of record
That such plot is a correct representation of all the exterior boundaries of the land survey and the division thereof That I have mode such a survey land division and plot by the direction of the owners listed hereon That I have fully complied with the provisions of Chapter 236 section 23634 of the Wisconsin Statutes the Town of lawrence the City of De Pere and the Brown County Planning Commission in surveying dividing and mopping the some
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Corrie Murphy Augustan Town Clerk
CERTIFICATE FOR THE CllY OF DE PERE
Approved for the City of PePere this day of 20__
Ken Pobich Director of Planning
TREASURERS CERTIFICATE
As duly elected Brown County Treasurer I hereby certify that the records in my office show no unredeemed taxes and no unpaid taxes or special assessments affecting any of the lands included in this Certified Survey Mop as of the dotes listed below
Kerry M Blaney Oote Brown County Treasurer
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UMITED LIABILITY COMPANy OWNERS CERTIfiCATE
New Cornerstone Holding LLC a Wisconsin limited liability company duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the lows of the Stole of Wisconsin does hereby certify that said limited liability company caused the easements to be granted and the shyland on this Certified Survey Mop to be surveyed divided dedicated and mopped as represented hereon New Comerstone Holding LLC does further certify that this Certified Survey Mop is required to be submitted to the Brawn County Planning Commission City of OePere and the Town of Lawrence for approval or objection in accordance with current Land Subdivision Ordinances
In Witness Whereof the said New Comerstone Holding LLC has caused these presents to be signed by Eric Johnson its Managing Member on this day of 2011
Eric Johnson Managing Member
Personally come before me this day of 20__ the above named Member of said Umited Uobility Company and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing instrument as such Member as the deed of said Limited Liability Company by its authority
My Commission Expires _ Brown County Wisconsin Notary Public
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August 04 2011
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1) Lots 1 cc 2 include weiland areas that may require permits from the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources Army Corps of Engineers Brown County Planning Commission or the local municipality Zoning Administrators Office prior to any development activity 2) The subject CSM is within Airport Zoning District middotCmiddot The Austin Stroubel International Airport Director sholl be contacted for review and approval prior to any development and land disturbing activities within Airport Zoning Districts 3) The property owner at the time of construction sholl implement the appropriate soil erosion control methods oullined in the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources applicable WONR Technical Standards to prevent soil erosion However if the Town at the time of construction has adopted a soil erosion control ordinance it sholl govem over this requirement This provision applies to any grading construction or installation-related activities 4) The wellonds are opproximote on Lots 1 cc 2 due to the large size of the lot and the locotion of the weiland and ESA The weiland and ESA boundary shell be properly identified by the affected landowner and delineated by the appropriate regulatory agency should any development on Lots 1 cc 2 occur near or within the weiland or ESA Any WONR-opproved weiland delineation reporlmop along with the approval tetter sholl be submilled to Brown County Planning Commission for verification
RESTRICTiVE COVENANTS
1) The land on all side and rear lot lines of all lots shell be graded by the property owner and maintained by the abutting property owners to provide for adequate drainage of surface water 2) No poles pedestals or buried coble are to be placed so as to disturb any survey stoke or obstruct vision along any lot lines or street line a disturbance of a survey stoke by anyone is a violation of section 23632 of the Wisconsin Statutes 3) A Shorelond Permit from the Brown County Zoning Administrators office is required for Lot(s) 1 cc 2 prior to any construction fill or grading activity within 300 feet of a stream 4) Lots 1 cc 2 contain on environmentally sensitive area (ESA) as defined in the Brown County Sewage Plan The ESA includes wellonds all land within 50 feet of wellonds 2 acres or greater f1oodwoy plus all land within 50 feet or 75 feet beyond the ordinary high water mark - whichever is greater all land within 100 feet of a navigable waterway all land within 25 feet of a non-navigable waterway steep slopes of 12 or greater associated with any water feature or buffer a 2D-foot setback from steep slopes of 20 or greater associated with a water feature or buffer Development and land disturbing activities are restricted in the ESA unless amendments are approved by the Brown County Planning Commission and the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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BY THOMAS HOZWAOOWSflt1 If()LWild(lt~1greellbWpre8s~laLdllGIn
Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
II On the personality hes Iooklng for So many people open busishynesses in strip malls and
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you know its a necessarv evil Cheap effective high visibility But for certain businesses its not where you want to be Were a (1 acre development We( not a 40-ac1e one Ae doing something uuiuu l here Its about bringing ) lot of little eclectic shops h 1
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
middotIt is a phenomenal spot especially with the pond right in back Brebner said
After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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DIUlY said he approached Merline aboutpurchasing the property because he lives in the area andwantedoffice space nearby The old schoolhouseshyturned-residential homecaught his attention immediately
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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negotiating to move a nearby historic building near the school to serveas an icecream shop
The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
The 1909one-room Drury brick school now
serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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RenovationTown planners like Drurys past restoration projects ~ From B-1 ing to go to Door County to get
the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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New Cornerstone Holding LLC a Wisconsin limited liability company duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the lows of the Stole of Wisconsin does hereby certify that said limited liability company caused the easements to be granted and the shyland on this Certified Survey Mop to be surveyed divided dedicated and mopped as represented hereon New Comerstone Holding LLC does further certify that this Certified Survey Mop is required to be submitted to the Brawn County Planning Commission City of OePere and the Town of Lawrence for approval or objection in accordance with current Land Subdivision Ordinances
In Witness Whereof the said New Comerstone Holding LLC has caused these presents to be signed by Eric Johnson its Managing Member on this day of 2011
Eric Johnson Managing Member
Personally come before me this day of 20__ the above named Member of said Umited Uobility Company and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing instrument as such Member as the deed of said Limited Liability Company by its authority
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1) Lots 1 cc 2 include weiland areas that may require permits from the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources Army Corps of Engineers Brown County Planning Commission or the local municipality Zoning Administrators Office prior to any development activity 2) The subject CSM is within Airport Zoning District middotCmiddot The Austin Stroubel International Airport Director sholl be contacted for review and approval prior to any development and land disturbing activities within Airport Zoning Districts 3) The property owner at the time of construction sholl implement the appropriate soil erosion control methods oullined in the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources applicable WONR Technical Standards to prevent soil erosion However if the Town at the time of construction has adopted a soil erosion control ordinance it sholl govem over this requirement This provision applies to any grading construction or installation-related activities 4) The wellonds are opproximote on Lots 1 cc 2 due to the large size of the lot and the locotion of the weiland and ESA The weiland and ESA boundary shell be properly identified by the affected landowner and delineated by the appropriate regulatory agency should any development on Lots 1 cc 2 occur near or within the weiland or ESA Any WONR-opproved weiland delineation reporlmop along with the approval tetter sholl be submilled to Brown County Planning Commission for verification
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1) The land on all side and rear lot lines of all lots shell be graded by the property owner and maintained by the abutting property owners to provide for adequate drainage of surface water 2) No poles pedestals or buried coble are to be placed so as to disturb any survey stoke or obstruct vision along any lot lines or street line a disturbance of a survey stoke by anyone is a violation of section 23632 of the Wisconsin Statutes 3) A Shorelond Permit from the Brown County Zoning Administrators office is required for Lot(s) 1 cc 2 prior to any construction fill or grading activity within 300 feet of a stream 4) Lots 1 cc 2 contain on environmentally sensitive area (ESA) as defined in the Brown County Sewage Plan The ESA includes wellonds all land within 50 feet of wellonds 2 acres or greater f1oodwoy plus all land within 50 feet or 75 feet beyond the ordinary high water mark - whichever is greater all land within 100 feet of a navigable waterway all land within 25 feet of a non-navigable waterway steep slopes of 12 or greater associated with any water feature or buffer a 2D-foot setback from steep slopes of 20 or greater associated with a water feature or buffer Development and land disturbing activities are restricted in the ESA unless amendments are approved by the Brown County Planning Commission and the Wisconsin Deportment of Natural Resources
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
middotIt is a phenomenal spot especially with the pond right in back Brebner said
After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
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-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
middotIt is a phenomenal spot especially with the pond right in back Brebner said
After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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ikevultures swooping over their prey many developshyers havebeeneyeing the
property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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DIUlY said he approached Merline aboutpurchasing the property because he lives in the area andwantedoffice space nearby The old schoolhouseshyturned-residential homecaught his attention immediately
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
nt know much of the buildings history bUI estimates it to be roughly 150 years old
After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
Merline is reaping another
Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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LEDGEVIEvV Builder Pat Drury hopes that the restored br-ick East middotTallev School will lx a nice 1itrlo jewel in the quickly develshyoping suburban center at Brown County G uid GV
On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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The school _- which Drury has restored to the tune of $250000 to $300000 -- will house his homeshybuilding business Drury Design Custom Homes as well as a shop where hell sell antiques and furnishyture
Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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negotiating to move a nearby historic building near the school to serveas an icecream shop
The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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BY THOMAS HOZWAOOWSflt1 If()LWild(lt~1greellbWpre8s~laLdllGIn
Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
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After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
schoolhouse little jewel in project Old-time look adopted for center BY JIM KNEISZEL
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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RenovationTown planners like Drurys past restoration projects ~ From B-1 ing to go to Door County to get
the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
For The Birds owner Barb Brebner enters her relocated store Monday on the grounds of the St Norbert Abbey in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette
dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
middotIt is a phenomenal spot especially with the pond right in back Brebner said
After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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DRURY DESIGNS CUSTOM HOMES INC has purchased the old schoolshyhouse in Ledgeview Owner Pat Drury will restore tbe smiddotchoolhouse and use it for
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DIUlY said he approached Merline aboutpurchasing the property because he lives in the area andwantedoffice space nearby The old schoolhouseshyturned-residential homecaught his attention immediately
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
nt know much of the buildings history bUI estimates it to be roughly 150 years old
After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
For The Birds owner Barb Brebner enters her relocated store Monday on the grounds of the St Norbert Abbey in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette
dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
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er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
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After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
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The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
middotIt is a phenomenal spot especially with the pond right in back Brebner said
After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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ikevultures swooping over their prey many developshyers havebeeneyeing the
property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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DIUlY said he approached Merline aboutpurchasing the property because he lives in the area andwantedoffice space nearby The old schoolhouseshyturned-residential homecaught his attention immediately
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
nt know much of the buildings history bUI estimates it to be roughly 150 years old
After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
Merline is reaping another
Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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LEDGEVIEvV Builder Pat Drury hopes that the restored br-ick East middotTallev School will lx a nice 1itrlo jewel in the quickly develshyoping suburban center at Brown County G uid GV
On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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The school _- which Drury has restored to the tune of $250000 to $300000 -- will house his homeshybuilding business Drury Design Custom Homes as well as a shop where hell sell antiques and furnishyture
Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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negotiating to move a nearby historic building near the school to serveas an icecream shop
The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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BY THOMAS HOZWAOOWSflt1 If()LWild(lt~1greellbWpre8s~laLdllGIn
Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
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After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
For The Birds owner Barb Brebner enters her relocated store Monday on the grounds of the St Norbert Abbey in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette
dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
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After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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DIUlY said he approached Merline aboutpurchasing the property because he lives in the area andwantedoffice space nearby The old schoolhouseshyturned-residential homecaught his attention immediately
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
nt know much of the buildings history bUI estimates it to be roughly 150 years old
After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
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After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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DRURY DESIGNS CUSTOM HOMES INC has purchased the old schoolshyhouse in Ledgeview Owner Pat Drury will restore tbe smiddotchoolhouse and use it for
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
nt know much of the buildings history bUI estimates it to be roughly 150 years old
After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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The school _- which Drury has restored to the tune of $250000 to $300000 -- will house his homeshybuilding business Drury Design Custom Homes as well as a shop where hell sell antiques and furnishyture
Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
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er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
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After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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ikevultures swooping over their prey many developshyers havebeeneyeing the
property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
Merline is reaping another
Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
middotIt is a phenomenal spot especially with the pond right in back Brebner said
After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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ikevultures swooping over their prey many developshyers havebeeneyeing the
property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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DIUlY said he approached Merline aboutpurchasing the property because he lives in the area andwantedoffice space nearby The old schoolhouseshyturned-residential homecaught his attention immediately
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
Merline is reaping another
Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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negotiating to move a nearby historic building near the school to serveas an icecream shop
The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
The 1909one-room Drury brick school now
serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Receiving Brown County Historical Societys 2004 out-of-plumb floor was leveled and the original Preservation Award for Building Adaptive Reuse was hardwood floor was exposed Some of the flooring the Olde School Past to Present located at 3706 was replaced from other areas of the bulidinq and Creamery Road in the Town of LedgeviewJeffVan the floors were refinished The brick walls were Straten the Town Chairman nominated this exposed and tuck-pointed The interior now sports a building formerly the EastValley School District cathedral ceiling which allows a partial second floor Number 5 display area The stairway to this area was built to
resemble the time period and the wainscoting is This building very typical of the one-room schools original Salvaged lumber from the roof project was that dotted the rural landscape was built in 1909 at used to trim the windows The main entrance arch a cost of $2800-2900 It replaced an earlier school which had been enclosed was restored to resemble that had burned It served this function until 1960 the original appearance and the structure was when it closed its doors and the students were made handicapped accessible An addition to the incorporated into the De Pere School District south was added in 2004 which serves as the Sometime in the 1980s the abandoned building headquarters for Drury Designs Drury was able to was converted into a residence find original Hockers brick and then experimented
with different mortar mixes to match the existing Pat Drury of Drury Designs purchased this brick building building with the intent of converting it into the anchor for a proposed early 20th century-style The bell tower had been removed but no photos commercial development This is the first of an have been found showing its original appearance envisioned 12-15 building retail development for However there was a twin of the building the the corner of Brown County G and GV Henrysville School in the Town of Eaton that
allowed Drury to replicate the missing tower An As a home the windows had been reduced in size article in the local newspaper resulted in Elaine Le and a second floor had been installed in the Due offering the original school bell which her interior The resulting first floor ceiling was very low parents Sylvester and Victoria Smet had purchased and in the construction structural supports were in 1950 A total of $250000-300000 was spent on removed causing the walls to belly out The the restoration foundation and the brick exterior were in good shape Drury replaced the windows with period The interior is a well-displayed gift store staffed by windows of the original size to restore the exterior friendly personnel A visit brings back many to its former appearance The roof had to be rebuilt memories of the past To the south and west is a with the existinq rafters reset and properly braced large open-air display of bedding plants from
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
Tile new FF the Birds store is across the street from itsStore migrates location of eight years 3808 Riverside Drive in De Pere Patrick FerronPressshyacross the street Gazette
For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
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After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
The 1909one-room Drury brick school now
serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Pat Drury doesnt pull punches Hehas a beef with mint-mall Americas archishytcctural style
Tired of seeing cookie-cutshytel t1ipmatls while driving through the country Drury decided to tap into the areas history and look a littie closshy
er at what gets Rent to the scrap heap As owner of Drury Designs Custom Homesthe Grenn Baynative believes in the preservation of old buildings restoration of antique centerpieces and most importantly bringing a unique creative sensibility to his little corner of Northshyeastern Wisconsin OldeshySchoolSquare in Ledgeview
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llI On the coucept of had an old school hOUR8 OldeSchool Square We and it became our anchor
rm th We moved an original iceshyhouse from across tho street so that we could save it I have people to this day who think Im crazy for doing that It cost me alshymost $6000 to move it over and by the time I did it a lot of it was junk But the marshyketing value of it the hisshytoric icehouse theres a high level of uniqueness to it When it comes to marshyketing thats something where you can say Yeah my grandma used to get ice from this place
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II 011 being unique You can drop out of illt sky land on your two 1t-8L and youre in corporate America Youdont 10lOW j r youre in Illinois Michishygan wherever it looks like everyone else in the country I hate that
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For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
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After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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LEDGEVIEvV Builder Pat Drury hopes that the restored br-ick East middotTallev School will lx a nice 1itrlo jewel in the quickly develshyoping suburban center at Brown County G uid GV
On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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The school _- which Drury has restored to the tune of $250000 to $300000 -- will house his homeshybuilding business Drury Design Custom Homes as well as a shop where hell sell antiques and furnishyture
Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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negotiating to move a nearby historic building near the school to serveas an icecream shop
The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
The 1909one-room Drury brick school now
serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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Barb Brebner puts items away Monday in her new store on tho grounds 01 the Sr ~orbert Abb~y in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette I
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
For The Birds owner Barb Brebner enters her relocated store Monday on the grounds of the St Norbert Abbey in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette
dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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For the Birds gets new home near Abbey Pond BY SARAH KLOEPPING
De Perc resident Barbara Brebner wont have to travel far when she reopens her store For the Birds early next year
The store was located at ~~808 Riverside Drive for eight years before she was forced to close the shop this summer to make way for a Nicolet Bank
Brebner approached Abbot Gary Neville of St Norbert Abbey about building a new store across the street Ileal Abbey Pond
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After much discussion the Norbertine community agreed to her proposal
~I promised to be as environmentally cautious and sensitive as possible she said
The new building will be larger than the previous store and will feature more observashytion windows for customers to view the birds
I have just as many customers that corne to see the birds as they do to shop said Brebner Who expects the store which sells birdfeeders seed and other items to open in late Ianuary or early February
The construction team at Drury Designs Custom Homes is taking as little away from the area as possible to ensure that visitors enjoy watching the birds in their natural enshyvironment
The original For The Birds was located in one of the areas tlrst gas stations and Brebshyncrs new store will have a historical feel as well It is designed to look like a farm buildshying from the 1800s
We wanted something that looks like its been there for l(lO years Brebner said - Lisa HildebrandPress-Gazette
ABOVE Tim Van Deurzen of Drury Designs Custom Homes works on the frame of the flew For the Bird-sstore in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette LEFT Barbara Brebner hopes to open her new store early next year FilePress-Gazette
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
The 1909one-room Drury brick school now
serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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Barb Brebner puts items away Monday in her new store on tho grounds 01 the Sr ~orbert Abb~y in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette I
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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property on the cornerofcounshyty highways G and GV in Ledgeview
Luckily for the oldschoolshyhousethat rests on the commershycially valued piece of land its newpurchasersplansfor the property dont include a bullshydozer
Property ownerLaurie Merline recentlv soldthe land to Pat Drury owner of Drury Designs Custom HOllies lnc to useas the new basefor lisbusishyness Though a scheduled renoshyvation project will give the old
schoolhouse a totally newpurshypose the goal is to have it lookshyingmore like its oldself than ever Drury said
Imtrying to get the word out 10anyone whohas old phoshytos or stories of the building he said Were going to totally reclaim it and make it 1001lt as much like the oldschoolhouse as is possible
Theproject will include installing the tallwindows and bell towerthat were features of the oldschool restoring the original doors and usingbricks from the propertys outhouse and WOOl original wood remshynantsto recreate the main building Construction is schedshyuled to begin in November and Dl1l1 said he hopes to have his offices inside by March
Itsdefinitely going to be a laborof love because its really not the most fiscally responsible thingIveeverdone Drury said Imguessing the renova-
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because thats what I hangmy hat on withmy business Drury said
Theownerwasafraiddevelshyoperswould buyit and knockit down and I assuredher that as long as I am around that wont happen and that the building will be preserved
Merline whobought the property in 1980 said she doesshy
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After serving as the schoolshyhouse it was a warehouse before beingrenovated intothe three-bedroom two-bath home she purchased
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
Merline is reaping another
Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
schoolhouse little jewel in project Old-time look adopted for center BY JIM KNEISZEL
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LEDGEVIEvV Builder Pat Drury hopes that the restored br-ick East middotTallev School will lx a nice 1itrlo jewel in the quickly develshyoping suburban center at Brown County G uid GV
On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
string of big boxretailers Were recommending those
commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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Barb Brebner puts items away Monday in her new store on tho grounds 01 the Sr ~orbert Abb~y in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette I
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
For The Birds owner Barb Brebner enters her relocated store Monday on the grounds of the St Norbert Abbey in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette
dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
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The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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daughters in the schoolhouse said shes sad to sell the propershyty hut the lime is right
Its to a point where it needs remodeling and renovating she said
Pat Druryapproached me with his plans and J couldsee him doing some fantastic things with it Id rather see that than to see it demolished
For me to stick the money into it myself nowand then have to sell it to someonewho would come in and rip it down in two or three years isnt worth it for me
I think his plans to move his business here are great and he should probably do real well in this area
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Pat Drury is seeking photos stories and other memorabilia related to the history of the old Ledgeview schoolhouse located at the corshyner of county highways G andGv The material will aid in the restoration of the building which will house the offices of Drury Designs Custom Homes IncAnyone with information is asked to write him at 1837 Saddlebrook Lane De Pere WI 54115 FYI
benefit from selling the property to one of the areas most popushylar residential home builders As part of the purchase deal Drury is building Merlinea new home only a block away
When her new home is fin- _ ished sometime next month the
schoolhouse property legally will switch hands to Drury
The deal really workedout well for everyone Drury said The schoolhouse will be preshyserved Ill have a unique office space andLaurie will havea new home in the area
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On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
You drive by all of subshyurban America with strip malls that can be dropped anywhere in the countrv and it looks i h~ same he said Wore trying to be a little more authentic about it and bring o l d-wor ld charm to this corner
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The school _- which Drury has restored to the tune of $250000 to $300000 -- will house his homeshybuilding business Drury Design Custom Homes as well as a shop where hell sell antiques and furnishyture
Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
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Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
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-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
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Barb Brebner puts items away Monday in her new store on tho grounds 01 the Sr ~orbert Abb~y in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette I
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
For The Birds owner Barb Brebner enters her relocated store Monday on the grounds of the St Norbert Abbey in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette
dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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LEDGEVIEvV Builder Pat Drury hopes that the restored br-ick East middotTallev School will lx a nice 1itrlo jewel in the quickly develshyoping suburban center at Brown County G uid GV
On Sa t urd av Drury operis the d oor to the qua in 1909 schoolhouse as the n--t step in what he enshyvis irns as a replica early 20th century commercial district at the heart of Ledgev iows busiest bus ishyness area
Drury has pu r t no r ed w it li De Pcro developer Keith Garot in a project toshytaling 7 acres and expected to include an old-tushlonert strip mall with 12 to 15 sIwshycial ty shops and a fp- s tart d a lo n e bu s i nes ses Drurv also hopes to move nea rbv centtrv-rllrl j1I( ing to the s ito to cornpleshyment the restored school
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Drurys construction business has gr-own from turning out 12 houses three years ago to 22 last year At the same tune hes become interested in anshytiques and adaptive reuse of old furniture and archishytectural elements in naw homes
Hed like to see the Olde School Square developshyment emerge as a one-stop shopping area for craftsshymanship related to home building Businesses that could fill the 1500- to 2500shysq uare-foot retail spaces include a stained-glass arshytisan a high-end plumbing supplier a paint and wallshypaper store and home decor shops
Drury said there have been discussions about a restaurant tavern or proshyfessional building going on two I-acre outlots that will face Brown County G alongshyside the school He is also
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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commercial clusters be comshybined with residential developshyment to a certain extent he said Building orientation will be very important Do you have to cross a large parking lot on foot to reach the buildings
Drury said his concept may be compared to Vickery Village a group of older buildings usedfor specialty shops in Suamico
This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
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If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
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The effort to preserve the old schoolhouse was a catalyst for a new historic-preservation ordishynance in Ledgeview Throughthe new guidelines Drury reshyceivedpermission torestore the school even though its veryclose to the County G right-ofshyway and in the area expected to be a retail hub in the future
The school closed 44years ago and was converted into a house more than 20years ago Many ofthe areas country schoolhouses
Grand opening The public is invited to see the restored East River Valley
School when it opens saturday as Olde School - Past to Preshysent and home of DruryDesign Custom Homes Visitors may tour the historic school buildingfrom 10 am to 5 pm at 3706 Creamery Road near the intersection of Brown County G and GV
are meeting the wrecking ball pal planner these days according to Mary The idea of the sctlaquogtol placed Jabe Herber the Brown County near the road instead of masshyLibrary local history librarian sive parking lots typical to subshy
Drurys concept seems approshy urbia is in line with how develshypriate with Ledgeviews comshy opment should look in that prehensive plan which ca1ls for area While it will be an area of clusters of commercial buildshy busy growth Runge said ings along County Gvsaid Cole Ledgeview should get awayRunge Brown Countys princi- from the sprawling look of a
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This is a better location he said of the area that will be part of the future southern bypass corridor Its one of the busiest intersections in greater GreenBay area
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
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historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
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The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
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In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
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Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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SchoolhouseOriginal bell to be returned to new tower young teenagers They could get taking pains to make the outshyWanted into mischief too she said side of the school as historlcalshyYou didnt have what I guess I lv accurate as possihle Several
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the public so people can enjoy Schoolhouse photos hear they have noll They had a contractors and suppliers for
The decision is marc of what reliving the past Pat Drury would like to see great respect for lhe teacher Drurys construction business [ think is right than it is a Ilshy historic photos of the East With the growth of Mystery have contributed tune and mashynnncinl decision Drury said River Valley No5 schoolhouse Valley SUbdivision and the new terials to the effort As I get older I start thinking in Ledgeview If you have phoshy ShapKa Express pharmacy Hes restored the bell tower to about developers tearing down tos of the interior or exterior of nearby town Chairman Joff the building and tracked down the old buildings Its always the school cali Drury Design Van Straten is glad to see a bit the or ig iual bell at Elaine easier to start with a clean of heritage of the former town LeDucs home all Oak Ridge slate
Custom Homes Inc at (920) of De Pere preserved He said Circle Lefiucs parents339-1011 the school projectprompted the Sylvester and Victoria Smet
schoolhouses are meeting the Many of the areas country
historic preservation ordinance purchased the bell about 1950 wrecking ball these days acshy and may oncournge others [0 ami used it to call the kids ant cording to Mary Jane Herber I1C when I sec histortc buildshy save old lnulrlings tlJ~ cows horne at their Ill rm the Brown County Library local ings in De Perc and Green Bay I certainly hope we can save L(~Duc said her mother who history librarian A prime exshy torn down Its not necessarily some of the old buildings that died earlier this vear would be ample was lin architecturally that wonderful things happened are worth saving Van Straten proud to see the bell returned to interesting one-room school in them But theyre old and said Ledgeview iii one of the the school along Allouez Avenue near the theyve known all kinds of life oldest towns in Wisconsin and Drury believes the 011e100111 Target store in Bellevue that Pansier recalls ringing the Im excited to have some of the school will he trensurerl in veals was torn down in the past year bell every day to call the kids in old buildings preserved to come hy visitors who want to
In lots of cases theyre on after recess and Innch She reo Drury is building II loft aile get il glimpse of the past prime corners where two COWlmiddot members her pupils as earnest conference 100111 Inside the Baby boomers are gettlng ty trunks intersect or theyre Sister Evelvn Pansier 90 a grades I to II between 1932 and students with lots of farm school and is finishing an midimiddot oltler and [ truly believe on small parcels that have alshy member of Sisters of Our Lady 1936 Shes excited to tour the chores to do outside of school lion on one side of the building theyre more In tonch with ready been subtllvlded so of Charity in Green Bay gradushy building after so many years They just simply grew up for his bnsiness office While their roots he said Peopletheres not a lot of commotion ated from East River Valley in 1 thmk its wonderful she They learned to be responsible the interior will be altered from want to go back to where they to save them Herber said 1927 and returned to teach said of the project It grieves youngsters and responsible the original school Drury is came Irom
Elaine LeDuc right talks with Pat Drury about the bell from the East River Valley School No5 recently at her home on Oak Ridge Circle in Ledgcvicw The bell which has been at LeDUCS family home for 50 years will be reinstalled In the schoolhouse by Drury who Is restoring the old building Evan SieglePress-Gazette
Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
The 1909one-room Drury brick school now
serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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RenovationTown planners like Drurys past restoration projects ~ From B-1 ing to go to Door County to get
the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
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passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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gt- From C-8 I For The Birds I The birders boutique Forof the Norbertine Order of The Birds closed last summerpriests who leased her the site when its home a small former The whole idea was for this
to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
For The Birds owner Barb Brebner enters her relocated store Monday on the grounds of the St Norbert Abbey in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette
dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Pat Drury owner of his own homebuilding business renovates 010 buildings and hopes to help shape the dishyrection of the town of Ledgeview business district Photos by Patrck FerronPress-Gazette
Developer plans rerro village Olde School Crossing at heart of Ledgeview~s growth BYJIM KNEISZEL
Developer Pat Drury hopes his award-winning restoration of a century-old schoolhouse sets the tone for a retro-1900 village near Brown Countv G and Gy
Drurys adaptive reuse of the East River Valley School at COlU1ty G and Creamery Road is the corshy
nerstone fOI~ a planned community of restored and hisshytorically accurate new buildings called Olde School Crossshying
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serves as Drurvs olshyfice and ltIn architectural artifact store and recentlv received an award for its restoration bv the Brown County Historic Preservashytion Committee
In the next few months Drury plans to begin construction on a new building to replicate a general store and firehouse with one space already dedicated to a retail lightshying shop After that he plans to move a nearby old wooden ice storshyage house to the si te to become an ice cream parlor
With future and it ions possibly including a restaurant overlooking the Jltast River and other specialty shops the seven-acre site at the heart of Ledgcv iews new town center may resemble another colshylection of quaint shops in Suamico
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the same kind of ambiance will be laid one by one rather The Olde School project pops than utilizing modern panel- up in an area quickly shaping ized brlck walls often seen in up as a retail center to serve new construction many new subdivisions in the
Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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gt- From C-8 I For The Birds I The birders boutique Forof the Norbertine Order of The Birds closed last summerpriests who leased her the site when its home a small former The whole idea was for this
to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
For The Birds owner Barb Brebner enters her relocated store Monday on the grounds of the St Norbert Abbey in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette
dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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Integral horizontal reinforcing trusses and dual finned between section seals are only two of the standard features that set them apart from other doors available on the market today
All the Alumatite doors are manufactured from 6063-T6 high quality aluminum alloy extrusions and a standard finish of clear anodized or Duracron thermal setting white enamel custom finishes are also available
The Richards-Wilcox reputation for quality sectional door products is clearly reflected in the distinctive appearance and performance of our Alumatite products
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Section framing 4Smm (1 34) thick sections fabricated from 6063-T6 aluminum alloy extrusions extrusion thickness 183mm (O07S) thick and 37mm (O1S)thick at hardware mounting locations Panelled sections fabricated from 129mm (OOS) thick stucco embossed aluminum sheet End stiles 86mm (3 38) wide aluminum for single end roller brackets 162mm (6 38) for double end roller brackets Centre stiles SOmm (2) wide aluminum Pair of meeting rails 83mm (3 14) high aluminum A17S A17SA and A17ST Top rail of bottom section 86mm (3 38) high aluminum A11SA and A17SW Bottom rail of bottom section 86mm (3 38) high aluminum A17ST Bottom section (optional top section) of 4Smm (1 34) steelpolyurethanesteel sandwich panel CFCshy11 free stucco embossed ribbed reinforced colour white thermal values of RSI=284 (R=164) USI=O34 (U=0061)
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Its not the cheapest way to area The new ShopKo Express do it but its the right way to do store is a block to the east at it Drury said The interest in County G and GV and the poshyexterior detail is what drove tenttal site of the Dickinson Drury to pump $250000 into the Heights subdivision and a posshyold school which caught the sible new elementary school is eye of the historic preservation a little further east off County committee G
Another one of Druryscur- Van Straten said he got to rent projects is theFQr~pelnow Drury while the town Birds shop adjacent tothest b6atd crafted a historic presershyNorbert Abbey pond on River- vation ordinance that allowed side Drive patterned afteran for commercial use of the 1800s Belgian barn He used tin school property He lilted the old roof panels reclaimed frommiddot antoWJl concept so well he decidshyold barn in Glenmore to bulld ed to move his existing lighting the rustic roof on that building repair business into the new lCo
that is nearly complete tail space Laurel Towns a member of For Ray Pansier who attend-
the preservation group said ed East River Valley School and bustling area They all hauled Drury impressed the committee grew up on a farm up the road their milk therewith horses by reusing many architectural the old town center sounds like and buggies said Pausier 83 elements to create an attractive a good way to preserve some He said hes happy to see the interior space whftemetlcu- fond childhood memories Panshy school is spruced up and preshylously restoring the exterior of sier said local farmers long ago served for future generations to the school building used horse-drawn sleighs to fill enjoy
-rr he can save some old the ice house every winter to Ledgeview is changing realshybuildings out there 1 think cool butter made at the East ly rapidly Pansier said But 1 thats a neat idea Towns said River Valley Creamery guess it has to be Youcant stop Itll be much closer than bav- For the farmers that was a progress you know
Abbey provides ideal habitat for bird-watchers boutique BYJIMKNEISZEL building has been sitting ing the rusty roof The anshyjkneiszoo-greenbaypressgawItUC1J1I next to the Abbev Pond for swer is no The patina of a
several generations rusty roof actually cost DE PERE-- Drivers But the building with a quite a bit more money
passing the south entrance rusting tin roof and aging than a new roof of St Norbert Abbey these barn beams holding up a But Brebner was insisshydays might do a double sprawling porch roof is the tent on having the buildingtake when they see a brand-new home of a birdshy blend in with the rustic whitewashed Belgian farm watching supply shop For setting around the pondbuilding along the roadshy The Birds and used recycled building side A few of the first visitors materials to reflect the enshy
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AbbeylNoother development planned
Barb Brebner puts items away Monday in her new store on tho grounds 01 the Sr ~orbert Abb~y in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette I
gt- From C-8 I For The Birds I The birders boutique Forof the Norbertine Order of The Birds closed last summerpriests who leased her the site when its home a small former The whole idea was for this
to look like its been here for 100 I fillingstation in the Village years Brebner said To me ~~Qj Gate shops at 3808 Riverside its such a special place and I Drive was relocated by the De had to honor their generosity Pere Historical Society The and kindness with something shop reopened last week in a very pretty and unobtrusive larger location across the
Brebner was forced to move street on the grounds of theher 8-year-old store last sumshy St Norbert Abbey The new mer when a developer bought
address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
If this business werent 10shy Drury said the unique buildshycated here I would have closed ing will be the stores calling it Brebner said The attracshy Were not looking to develop St Norbert football stadium to card tion of her shop is that cusshy at all There will be no developshy the citys west side comes to If you put up a little building tamers can watch the bird-feedshy ment said the Rev John Kasshy fruition Kastenholz said He with no charm people arent ing supplies she sells being tenholz the treasurer of the said some of the stadium land going to want to stop by and used right outside the window order We believe in her misshy could be used for farming look at it This is like putting up
There would be more traffic sion and want to preserve as while the rest could be put into a billboard to draw people in at a strip mall but I couldnt much of the wild land as we prairie and woodland Drury said have had the feeders outside can Its almost like she had Though ifs still a small buildshy The building has attracted atshyand let people see out the winshy some oversight on the land to ing the structure patterned tention trom prospective comshy
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dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
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address is 1040 N Broadway_and demolished the old Village Gate shops across the street A grand opening is planned for Having conducted songbird mishy the first week in May gration studies in the area for several years she wanted to To give it the historical inshystay nearby Thats when she tegrity we were hoping for we thought of the priests at the had to use lOo-vear-old materishyAbbey als Drury said
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For The Birds owner Barb Brebner enters her relocated store Monday on the grounds of the St Norbert Abbey in De Pere Patrick FerronPress-Gazette
dows she said People WOUldshy begin with and shes just movshy after outbuildings on Kewaunee mercial clients who would like nt have been able to experience ing her establishment a little and Door County farms quadrushy to capture a nostalgic look the product before they bought closer to the water ples Brebners floor space That Drury said Though this was il Brebner would like to surshy allows her to expand product Drurys first commercial buildshy
She approached the Norbershy round the building with native line in feeders feed garden decshy ing project hes gotten feelers tine order about forging a partshy prairie grasses and wildflowers orations and furniture from people who want to open nership to allow her to keep her and remove invasive plants Builder Pat Drury of Drury coffee shops and restaurants shop and her research going neal the pond Kastenholz said Design Custom Homes in using antique themes
The priests liked Brebners the order wants to see her work Ledgeview said he used many The older baby boomers get environmentally friendly phishy in coordination with the Izaak barn beams barn board and the the more in touch theyre getshylosophy and love for the wildlife Walton League the St Norbert roof from a collapsed Glenmore ting with the past Drury said surrounding the pond They College and De Pere High barn on the new building The builder has started an arshycrafted an uuusual20-year lease School students to bring the While it took longer to build chitectural reclamation arm for for her to run the shop that they area back to an appearance of with the old wood it gives the his homebuilding business and want to make clear is the only old farm and forest building an authenticity it hopes to recycle materials from development that will occur on And the wild lookmiddot could exmiddot couldnt have otherwtse Drury older buildings in many proshythe sprawling Abbey property tend north if talk of moving the said jects
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All the Alumatite doors are manufactured from 6063-T6 high quality aluminum alloy extrusions and a standard finish of clear anodized or Duracron thermal setting white enamel custom finishes are also available
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Integral horizontal reinforcing trusses and dual finned between section seals are only two of the standard features that set them apart from other doors available on the market today
All the Alumatite doors are manufactured from 6063-T6 high quality aluminum alloy extrusions and a standard finish of clear anodized or Duracron thermal setting white enamel custom finishes are also available
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Integral horizontal reinforcing trusses and dual finned between section seals are only two of the standard features that set them apart from other doors available on the market today
All the Alumatite doors are manufactured from 6063-T6 high quality aluminum alloy extrusions and a standard finish of clear anodized or Duracron thermal setting white enamel custom finishes are also available
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