“We held my family reunion in Port Clinton last summer, and I was very interested in getting feedback from all 33 members, most of them southerners. “Code issues in fixing things up in an old building like that forced us to back up and punt a couple of times, but The Brick House looks wonderful now,” said Celek. The street-level restaurant lined in red brick had a very soft opening last July with pizza and ice cold beer, as well as appetizers, grinders, salads and specialty drinks. The initial goal was to renovate the building’s facade, adorning it with period-style windows that matched the ones expert aviator and local builder Milton Hersberger had installed. Much work needed to be done to make it into what Celek insisted was the “Crown Jewel of Madison,” Port Clinton’s new entertainment Mecca for tourists and local folks. When the group bought the building, the second story windows were boarded over and the century-old building was showing its age. The Brick House is in the Hersberger Building, “a cool building that we’re trying to make even cooler,” said Celek. Celek, a Clemson grad, still loves his home town and is the member of a consortium of five former Redskins who are finding success with The Brick House on Madison Street in downtown Port Clinton. (Photo by D’Arcy Patrick Egan)īrian Celek graduated from Port Clinton High School in 1981, and the industrious student parlayed a lawn cutting service when he was in the fifth grade into a successful construction company in Charleston, S.C. A group of five Port Clinton High School graduates who scattered to the four winds about four decades ago and found success in life returned last week for the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new The Brick House restaurant on Madison Street in downtown Port Clinton.
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