Greetings!                                                           My name is Sharon Brown and I am the owner/creator of this green business. I am a yooper who grew up in Newberry, graduating from the local highschool in the1970's.

This business is a second career for me; I retired from a position as school social worker in the Gaylord area (lower Michigan). I am happy to be home and having lots of fun. As you will see in the following pages, I've had lots of help from  family and friends on this journey. We were in this 100 year old building for 6 months before we opened. We had LOTS of work to do.

Michigan Historical Building
Here's the building as it sat empty for 5 years. It's a state historical building, built as Newberry's first bank, as well as first brick building on main street. 

There's a Newberry fellow who has a vast collection of Newberry historical documents ("ephemera" to collectors). He was nice enough to give me a copy of this article announcing the building was going to be constructed in 1890.
 

 

The last business to be tried in the building was a bridal and hair salon. They had carved up the main space with dressing rooms and there was old worn, ill-fitting carpeting on the floor. 

Photos of the gallery side

 

A couple shots in the bank half of the inside. It's the original, locally-milled paneling on the walls,         new laminate on the floor.  
                                                                     

                            

        

Up the stairs ...
 
 
 
 
...even a peak above the drop ceiling upstairs.
 

We started to move in on November 15th, 2007.

 

and so the work began...click here for page 2.

For further information contact:
The Old Bank Collection of Shops - 318 Newberry Avenue - Newberry, Michigan 49868
(906) 293-9901
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