Fantastic Spaces in Unusual Places

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Mike and Brian McMenamin transformed this Catholic school building in Bend, Oregon, into The Old St. Francis Pub.

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The Old St. Francis Pub, which includes an on-site brewery, is one of more than 50 pubs owned by McMenamins.

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The Priority Designs offices in Columbus, Ohio, started out as this smelly racquetball facility.

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The modern space Priority Designs now calls home even includes a rock-climbing wall. Some of the glass tables in the office were made from old racquetball walls, and the wood floors came from the former running track.

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Scarlett and Nancy Foster-Moss plan to turn this original cookhouse building on their 17-acre Beall Greenhouses property into a new cooking studio for classes and catering.

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Many of the studios that artists rent from Beall Greenhouses are located in this former flower packing building.

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Steinarr the Kraze E. Viking spent six months turning an abandoned Methodist church in Crosby, Minnesota, into the Viking Inn. Light that comes in through the large, stained glass windows illuminates his handiwork.