Community Event Center 

 

COMMUNITY EVENT CENTER FOR NON PROFIT USE

OFFICE SPACES $300 MONTH, ALL UTIL INCLUDED.


  FREE COMMUNITY POTLUCKS T.B.T

 ( POSTED ON FACEBOOK PAGE)

BRING A DISH TO PASS, ENJOY MEETING NEW FRIENDS AND SING SOME KARAOKE


LIKE US ON FACEBOOK AND WATCH FOR OTHER FREE EVENTS LIKE MOVIE NIGHT, BIG CITY DANCE PARTY ETC.

                                                                

THE BANQUET ROOM IS NOW PRIVATE AND NOT FOR LEASE 


UPSCALE TABLES, CHAIRS, BOSE SOUND SYSTEM, XM RADIO, DISH NETWORK  AND LASER DANCE LIGHTING PROVIDED

SEATS UP TO 250


                                                                                                                       Restored Cast Iron Lintels 

                                                                                                       Night Lighting

                                                                                           Prayer Healing Garden 

                                                                                                Banquet event center 

                                                           Massive 20 ft tall 7 ft wide fireplace- will be covered in stone

Be sure to read the rich history of this building below.


A large project to be completed late 2013




Plans Include professional offices and a community Banquet center


The banquet center will be provided at an extremely low cost that is affordable for the community for wedding receptions, Reunions, Holiday gatherings, plays, clubs etc..  This area has 40 ft ceilings with several balcony's great for bands, dancing, gatherings and meetings.


The professional offices will share  a main formal  waiting lobby area  and  a community kitchenette and bathroom.


This is a grand 150 year old structure

Below are the stained glass windows that will be hung in all the windows (shown above) of the Community center 

 The Old Cass County Office Building/Masonic Temple was built in 1860 to accommodate the county offices and to have a fire-proof structure in which to store public records.

 Joseph Smith, former member of the 1835-36 Territorial Legislature and successful Cassopolis merchant, constructed the brick and iron-trimmed building. 

The Old Cass County Office Building provided office space for the county clerk, judges of probate, register of deeds, and treasurer from 1860 to 1899, when the present Cass County Courthouse was completed. 

The Old Cass County Office Building is significant as one of only a very small number of such structures in Michigan surviving from the nineteenth century.

 It was used as a laundry until the local Masons purchased the building in 1923 for use as their temple. In 1925, a hall designed by Osgood and Osgood of Grand Rapids was added.


The Old Cass County Office Building/Masonic Temple consists of two sections: a rectangular, two-story, hipped roof, red brick, front section, which rests on a stone foundation, and a flat-roof, one-story, rubble stone, rear addition.

 The front section's first-floor windows have cast-iron sills and lintels and the columns and lintel of the entrance porch are also of cast iron. 

Brickwork raised one brick's width forms a pattern of brick panels in the front and side walls. The utilitarian rear section, which contains the hall, has a concrete foundation and simple, square-head windows.