In 1983, Gar Allen and Larry Bennett bought what remained of a home at 1815 Lafayette Avenue. The three story shell was originally built for a key employee of Christian Staehlin’s Phoenix Brewery. The brewery was razed in 1959 during construction of I-44. The house itself had a large sub-basement, formerly a tunnel from the brewery, that Allen and Bennett would have turned into a wine cellar, but for the dampness.
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