Historic preservation presentation will focus on local projects

In the fall of 2011, Leonard Felix took a giant leap of faith when he purchased the American Legion Hall, an 80-year-old building originally designed in 1933 by the well-known local architect Walter Day Hillborn.

The building’s unique characteristics, like the large timber trusses, iron hardware and original wood floors, inspired Felix to want to take a chance on the building, and plunge into efforts to remodel and restore it so that it could be used as offices for his business, CID Bio-Science. The company designs and manufactures portable instruments for agricultural and environmental research.