Lena native opens custom frame shop and art gallery in Eleroy
Sherry Maves
Special to The Journal-Standard
ELEROY — Lena native Paul Creighton, who grew up on his family grain farm, never intended to own a frame shop, but when the opportunity came to buy the former Freeport Ben Franklin business from Tom and Mary Olson he knew he had to take the risk.
Creighton already owned a home in Eleroy as well as a former auto body shop building next door. After spending two and a half months gutting and renovating the vacant building, in September he opened the Ben Franklin Custom Frame Shop/Strange Animal Arts Gallery at 108 N. Bridge St.