The Custer Beacon is a big part of what is making our rural hometown vibrant and fun.
It’s a community event center - with restaurant, bar, music venue, outdoor hangout space, four season porch, fire pit, front yard, and back yard. It’s the natural center of of the community and in it’s first year in the remodeled warehouse hosted weekly live music, bluegrass jams, open mics, family reunions, Pumpfest - A Black Hills Climbing Festival, A regional Air Guitar qualifier event (Holy Mother of Air - you need to see this), Burning Beetle, conferences, retirement parties, weddings, lectures, and all the other small town events you can imagine, from pool leagues to club meetings!
Tallgrass helped the owner group envision how they would invest in the community long before this project was a tangible concept, developing a “transect” document for their properties that helped organize their thinking. Eventually the Custer Beacon project emerged and we participated on the design team, but we continue to think big with them - engaging their projects with Design In the Hills, a local AIA conference and being a sounding board for their ideas - from trails to housing.
The owner was 100% engaged with the design and construction of the project. Fennell Design provided architectural design services. The building and grounds continue to grow and adapt to the needs of the community. We’ll see you there for supper and a drink any time you are in town!