Cellar District

The concrete and limestone walls began to take shape in 1913 and wouldn't be completed until 1930 for the original home of Immanuel Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church after Trinity English Lutheran Church and Immanuel German Lutheran Church merged creating the congregation.

This large church building has a steeply-pitched gable roof with parapets. There are numerous Gothic-arched openings punctuating the walls and on the front wall these openings are very large and filled with decorative stained glass. They are filled with stained glass on the side walls as well. The main entrance consists of three Gothic-arched entry doors accented with a stone frontispiece.

Efforts were made to utilize local materials, as well as local labor. Less the Indiana limestone trim, the majority of the exterior limestone was quarried just a few miles south of Fond du Lac. On the interior, most of the elaborate wood carving that can still be seen today was done by artisans at the Rosenthal Woodworking Company in Fond du Lac.

Then in 2002 the congregation voted in favor of building a new church in at a different site. Fast forward about 8 years and local developers, Commonwealth Development, purchased the property and began renovations to open Trinity Restaurant and Banquet Hall.

While there have been a couple of tenants in this vast building over the years, Cellar District proudly entered through the doors in July of 2021. The interior was cold had been left vacant for over 6 months. Although temperatures were in the 90's outside, inside winter jackets and hats would be worn during construction as The Cellar District began to take shape!