INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Old is meeting new at a just-opened bar in downtown Indianapolis.
A group of restaurateurs recently renovated St Joseph’s Church and converted it into a brewery.
“Looking around and seeing that I’m in a church, but it’s turned into a brewery, it’s pretty cool,” said Mariana Luna while sitting at the bar.
It was she and her friends’ first time walking into the 136-year-old converted building.
They fell in love with the space at first sight.
“It looked really nicely put together and I really liked how they integrated a new modern brewery feel, but keeping the historic aspects of the original church,” said Alex Baucco.
That’s the feeling co-owner Karl Mann says he was going for.
“Why not keep history alive? Why let a beautiful building like this go and fall apart?” asked Mann, rhetorically.
When Mann and his business partners purchased the building in 2014, the former Catholic church was crumbling. He says the key to renovating the 12,000 square foot space was keeping its character… CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY AT WISHTV
