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''Chessy’s sells art, antiques
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BAY ST. LOUIS — Don’t look for nuts and bolts anymore at 110 S. Beach Blvd.
Look lor fine furniture and art instead.
Former New Orleanian Clayton Naime Frazar found a chance to make a cheam come true when she visited a friend on the Coast and discovered that thi' historic Mauffray’s Hardware building was for sale.
“I’ve always wanted to have a home and a business in the same place,” she said.
M/hen Frazar — a 10-year widow n a background in the real estate and travel businesses — decided to open an antiques shop and art gallery, she checked out Oak and Magazine streets in the Crescent City first.
Then, she fell in love with Bay St. Louis.
Many of her friends thought she was crazy, but “the beauty of the city did it,” Frazar said.
Frazar bought the Mauffray property in March, heaved a sigh of relief when the City Council gave her a zoning variance that allows her to live above the store, then started remodeling.
She has named her new business Chessy’s, a name she found while sing through a popular trade
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Clayton Frazar is delighted with her new home, the former Mauffray Hardware building in downtown Bay St. Louis. Frazar lives upstair Chessy’s, her antiques and art store, is downstairs. But Frazar said everything in the building is for sale, including her bedroom furniture.
The months of renovation work by general contractor Blane C. Cowand of Bay St. Louis have turned the downstairs area of the building into a spacious, colorful shop and the former storage area upstairs into a loft home for Frazar and her dog, Boo-boo.
Frazar has added a partition downstairs and installed new window's and doors.
The renovated building has exposed ceiling beams and refinished original floors.
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Clayton Frazar, left, shows Ethel Magee Jr. where to hang some paintings for display in a new antiques and art store in Bay St. Louis.
Grand opening
What: Chessy’s, Bay St. Louis' newest antiques/arts gallery, will celebrate its grand opening with a reception for Pass Chris tian artist Malee Hearin.
When: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: 1.L0 S. Beach Blvd., Bay St. LO..IS,
Regular hours: On«n H^i1