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Reviving the past
BOB WILLIAMS / THE CHRONICLE Downtown Cottage Grove’s newest revitalization project – Ryan Thomas’ Bohemia Inn at 610 E. Main St. – will house a restaurant, retailer, and 10 rooms for the inn.
Former Knickerbocker building to live again, this time as Cottage Grove’s ‘Bohemia Inn’
COTTAGE GROVE – The resurgence of main streets in small towns has dug its heels in deep on East Main Street in downtown Cottage Grove.
At 610 E. Main St., property owner and Downtown Cottage Grove board member Ryan Thomas, who is also the owner of Ryan Thomas Construction, is restoring the Knickerbocker building into the Bohemia Inn: a two-story building with a restaurant, retailer, and ADA bedroom on the first floor with the remaining nine bedrooms on the second floor.
“My focus is: I love history; I love architecture; and I am passionate about these downtowns. My focus is restoration. I want things to be historically accurate. I want to bring them back to what they were at one time,” said Thomas, who is also working on historic preservation and restoration in another downtown – 448 Main St. in Springfield, owned by Masaka Properties.
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