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People feel it before they can name it: this room was never designed to be a banquet hall. It was designed the way you'd design a grand hotel lobby.

A lobby has a job. It's where people arrive, slow down, and gather — dressed up or dressed down, celebrating or just meeting. It has to feel special without feeling fragile. It needs a centerpiece overhead, room to move, and finishes that flatter everybody standing in it. That is exactly the job this room does every week, so that's what we built toward.

The updates started during COVID, when the calendar went quiet and we finally had the room to ourselves. The first big change was the chandelier — one piece that sets the tone for everything underneath it. If you've noticed the name of this series, you know how we feel about that fixture.

The room before COVID: the old Maria Theresa chandelier, photographed in 2018.

The carpet came the hard way. A flood — an infrastructure failure, the kind nobody schedules — forced the question, and insurance covered the replacement: new carpet, down in 2024. It changed how the room feels underfoot, how it sounds, and how it photographs.

The room today: new chandelier, new carpet.

None of it is about turning this building into something new. It went up in 1949 and has been a post office and a grocery store on its way to us. Our job, as we see it, is stewardship: keep the bones honored, keep the room beautiful, and keep it working for this town's next fifty years of weddings, reunions, and town halls.

So no — you're not renting an empty hall you'd have to dress up from nothing. You're stepping into a room that was composed to receive people. Come stand under the chandelier and see.