"We were like, 'Oh, look at that cute little church," O'Mara, a 39-year-old real-estate agent, told Business Insider.
AdvertisementThey didn't think of the chapel again until O'Mara stumbled upon it when scanning real-estate listings for work.
The Dunnigans turned the chapel into an event space and an Airbnb that they said brings in $40,000 in revenue a year.
The chapel was built by volunteers in the early 1900s to be a place of worship for Norwegian-speaking Lutherans.
Paulette Hagen Simple Website CreationsThey then found a local contractor whose father had built church altars.
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