Grand Junction, CO – A coffee emporium in Grand Junction is charity adult a side of story with a drinks and sandwiches.
This isn’t your standard coffee shop, for a integrate of reasons.
First, all a increase from this coffee emporium go to HopeWest, a non-profit hospice caring center.
Second, a coffee emporium is located in one of Grand Junction’s many ancestral homes, The Miller Homestead.
The Artful Cup only rebranded itself, to simulate a story of a surroundings.
The home was built in 1889 by Lawrence and Emilie Miller, cattle and goat farmers who brought their flock to a Grand Valley from a Midwest.
“It was utterly an estate. It was Grand Valley’s uncover home,” pronounced Marisa Felix-Campbell, HopeWest’s marketing manager. “They were utterly a socialites. When they had their open residence anyone who was anybody was here.”
After a array of owners, a home was donated to HopeWest and renovated in 2007. And now a coffee emporium has also turn a story museum.
“We have given taken a story of a Millers and incited a parlor into a small mini-museum,” Felix-Campbell said.
You can learn about a family and a story of a city in a late 1800s, and about Lazurus, a cherished Angora goat lifted by a Miller’s son. The nap from a goats was utterly profitable, used to make mohair clothing.
And now a coffee emporium even has a special splash called a Curly Goat to respect Lazurus.
HopeWest’s Community Relations Manager says there’s a reason we should stop by a Artful Cup a subsequent time we wish a crater of joe.
“As an classification that is built by a community, we wish we all to feel involved, like we are giving back,” pronounced Callie Rapke. “It’s partial of a mission, and we can do that when we have a crater of coffee here.”
So, a subsequent time we are going out for a jar of caffeine or a light lunch, we can supplement a bit of a Grand Valley’s story to your outing, along with doing something good for a community.