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What the Wainwright House Has Become is not what Fonrose Wainwright Condict would have wanted.

Fonrose Wainwright Condict never envisioned a wedding venue when she established Wainwright.  In her original application for Wainwright's approval in 1951 she wrote: 


"This home is not to be used as a church, but it will be used as a place of worship from time to time.  Its use will approach that of a parish house but ordinarily it will be used by much smaller groups of people...


In general, the groups meeting at Wainwright house will be comparably  

small running from 10 to 20 persons.   


There will be no outward appearance of its being used for any purpose  

substantially different from the uses for which a private house of  

this character might be expected to be used."

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Fonrose Petitioned the City to Establish the Wainwright House in a Residential Neighborhood

The City responed with a set of conditions and said if the use of the property outlined in Fonrose's petition changed permision is terminated.

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Wainwright house has become a Commercial Event Space

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