Owners to sell old fire station; Theatre Art Galleries won’t have use
 BY VICKI KNOPFLER
 ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
  HIGH POINT – The city’s first fire station, city hall and jail won’t, after all, become a satellite lo­cation for Theatre Art Galleries.
  The owners, who are the children of the late Mazie and Jake Froelich, are in the process of selling it to G&J Styles Inc., an Archdale-based company that sells antiques and reproduction furniture. G&J Styles used the building as a showroom last week.
  In July 2005, TAG Director Beth Ilderton an­nounced that TAG would have use of North Side Hose Company No. 1 at the corner of Wrenn Street and Kivett Drive. She planned to use the space as a satellite location that would supplement main galleries and offices in the High Point Theatre building at 220 E. Com­merce Ave.
  In particular, she needed a space for educa­tional programs and already had held some at the old building.
  She also planned to use a portion of the space for exhibits that would pay homage to the histo­ry of the old firehouse and the city’s fire depart­ment.
  The Froelich children never intended to deed the building to TAG, but planned to give free use of it, said Henry Froelich of Charlotte, one of three Froelich children.
  Mazie and Jake Froelich were longtime sup­porters of local arts groups, including TAG.
  Ilderton has put money into some repairs. The Froelich children will reimburse her for those PAUL MARTIN | HPE
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G&J Styles Inc., in the process of purchasing North Side Hose Company No. 1, used the old fire station as a showroom during market last week.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 expenses and will give TAG an additional $50,000.
  She will look for an alterna­tive site for a satellite loca­tion.
  “We don’t want anybody to think it was an indication for any reason that we changed our point of view on what they do,” Froelich said of TAG.
  “We didn’t expect to hold on­to it indefinitely. We expected to sell it, but over a five-year time frame, and we were well into that period.
  “The more we looked at it from managing our own as­sets, it seemed to make more sense for us to continue our desire to help them, and we of­fered them a significant dona­tion to help their outreach ef­for ts.
 vknopfler@hpe.com |888-3601