Couple Takes Old White Bear Lake Church And Makes It Into New Kind Of Sanctuary

By Erin Hassanzadeh, CBS Minnesota

January 17, 2024

WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. — If you're in the market for a home or you're one of those people who browse for funky real estate listings, you may have come across a former church-turned-house in White Bear Lake. It's a property that's lived many lives and is now up for sale.

Kelly Clement and Steve Bucher say that the place certainly didn't look great when they first bought it. They say the sides were bowing, the insulation was bad, the electrical system was hazardous and the plumbing was terrible.

But it had character. It was not only once a church — more than one, actually, having been both a Lutheran as well as a Baptist church — but, in a different stage in its life, it was also a theater for the Lakeshore Players.

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