Wood & Brick Tavern

A new tavern coming to the city’s downtown is a nostalgia-inducing throwback to the neighborhood pubs of yesteryear.

Wood & Brick Tavern is a project from a pair of tradesmen who used their woodworking and brick masonry skills to rejuvenate a decades old neighborhood bar while keeping its historic character intact.

Take for example the original mahogany bar that serves as the nucleus of the tavern, 315 S. Main St.

“A bar from the 40s has got a lot of battle scars: cigarette burns, all kinds of nicks,” co-owner Jeff Lindquist said. “I didn’t want to lose all that character. So I just augmented that finish, cleaned it up, and it can go for another 60 years.”