(Wallace) found all of that stored in the crawl space underneath the house. He thought this would be a good way to use it.

That's not going to be on the tour. It's going to stay a secret.

When we were working on the house, so many people asked about coming through that one person joked that we should charge admission. The girls' home is a major mission outreach for our church, so we put two and two together.

The Space targets a younger audience than some of the other venues in Springfield. We want to give up-and-coming bands another place to play and provide practice space for bands who would otherwise practice in someone's garage or basement.

I grew up in a generation that thought it was normal to smoke. When I started at Reid, we could smoke everywhere. We smoked at the central desks on the floors.

We thought it was important they get a sense of the space, whether what the district attorney says happened could have happened. That's really important for us, to be able to show the jurors that what they saw in court is not necessarily what the space looks like.