Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Its super blinds incredible million metre markdown tax at the factory t offer Mellil on All Larni ire Winnipeg free press sunday Homes Robert Knodel 6977212 january by Gloria Taylor staff writer 11 god bless this holy the Stan family of car Man have heard it All since they bought and renovated a Church to live but it was like the family was meant to find their special Philip Stan i want planning to come to car says recalling his family fateful trip two years it was in december of and i came in from Calgary to deliver a i happened to go Down this Street and saw the for Sale we asked to see the and when we walked we saw a dream right even a near collision with the congregations baptismal font in the front room want enough to deter Dianne and Philip Stan from buying the 102yearold former Church for their new minor hitch built by the presbyterian congregation in the building was purchased by the Church of Christ in in december the stans placed their Offert Purchase on the property for they began renovating in april 92 but not before sweating through a minor we found there was already an offer to Purchase on the building by some body who wanted to Knock it Down and make it into says we thought it was a he of the in the we were probably meant to get the we hold it in highest the stans were the first inhabitants to see the stained Glass premises As a family though part of the downstairs they converted to a Tea room and Small gift Dianne who operates the Tea does remember prior to moving How it would feel to live in such a heavenly but when i was lying in bed the first night in our i remember thinking it Felt just like lying in bed she says at the same she notes her two teenage daughters Are not so Blase about their living arrangements and claim a Friendly ghost lives with the Tea flows freely at the Walnut Street Tea room gift 77 2nd Avenue so visitors come and go the family relocated from Calgary to move Back to Dianne Home and Philip Heads to his Job daily As business manager at the local Ford a certified engineering technologist who holds a degree in Philip find work in his own Fields when he relocated to but his training was enough to let him know the House was structurally sound and Worth Reno after Worth of work is particularly in the Sec Ond floor girls bedrooms the stans added to their two Storey plus base ment the Steeple was removed and now graces the doing double duty As a much of the House was a move Philip Esti mates boosted its living space to about Square renovations started with the the family gutted the inside of the building and rebuilt one Board at a doing much of the work they levelled a floor that had a 12 Inch built in the style of an amphitheatre so people sitting in the Back pews could see As clearly As those in the front pews re framed the entire inside built an entirely modern and added joists to the underside of the Hardwood they put in a natural Gas Furnace with supplemental electric baseboard heat and updated the but when it came to other the family wanted to keep the building As authentic As Winter project the stans Are in the process of pre serving 13 stained Glass windows which had been shipped from Scotland when the Church was some of the win Dows will remain while others will be its going to be a Winter works pro Philip we have two Glass experts who will work on the the front room where the baptismal font once sat has been converted into a Large family room where two of the stained Glass windows Are along with another notable feature a towering 21foot Cathedral ceiling that meets in a Peak above the Jody free Fless the Cathedral ceiling and the stained Glass windows Are the show pieces of the stans unusual family some of the windows have Clear Glass panes in the lower permitting sufficient Light into the but the full length stained Glass windows in the Kitchen were removed because they blocked out too much of the coveted the 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