Banquet and Catering Facilities

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Indoors:

    In addition to our main restaurant, the Story Inn offers several exquisite indoor meeting and banquet rooms. Contact Erin Drake for your banquet and catering needs. 800-881-1183.

    The Old Mill. The 19th Century grain mill next to the Story Inn's General store is a perfect place for all-weather meetings and parties for up to 40 people. This remarkably well-preserved tin-roofed, clapboard edifice still has the original grain milling equipment in place! We recently renovated the interior of this remarkable building with hickory floors and pine paneling from locally-harvested trees, cut into lumber onsite and dried in our own barn, making it our most attractive and unique indoor dining facility.  We offer a full range of menu items in the Old Mill, which your group can enjoy in privacy, come snow, rain, heat, or night.

    "The Story Still."  In early 2003, we finished restoring the banquet room below the General Store. We call this area the "Story Still" which is a double entendre referencing the enduring and unchanging character of Story and the area's colorful history in producing bathtub gin. Brown County Sheriff Clarence Moore made local headlines when he confiscated a wood-fired still at Story in 1932 (pictured below).

  Other Areas. We also offer smaller, intimate rooms for special events, including a 800 square foot porch for all-weather meetings, an outdoor patio and a conference facility.  Our kitchen is able to handle groups from ten to five hundred revelers. For larger groups arrangements can be made. Contact Erin Drake at the Story Inn for your banquet and catering needs. 800-881-1183.

    Outdoors:   

     Story's Storied Barn. In 1999, we renovated a 2,400 square foot tin-roofed barn built in 1907. This multi-level edifice now serves as a venue for warm weather events including, weddings and wedding receptions, banquets, plays, poetry readings, lectures, meetings, family reunions, dances, and private catered events.    

    Architecturally, Story's Barn is a typical weather-beaten Brown County veteran. It has been tastefully adapted to its new uses. We have fitted the Barn with a concrete dance floor, indoor atrium, a tri-level loft and a 400 amp electrical service. We have also added a patio area for outdoor dining.   

    It was a challenge saving and bringing this venerable structure back to life. Century-old hardwood is scarce, even in Brown County. Thus, we were compelled to cannibalize a sister barn (too far gone) to preserve its historic and architectural integrity. The sacrifice was worth it.

The Garden and the Valley. Story's barn is located in a beautiful five acre valley surrounded by forest. It is an unparalleled natural setting. Not far from the barn is a carefully tended appropriate rural herb garden which supplies our gourmet restaurant. In the spring, hundreds of daffodils and daylilies shoot from the turf, to complement the riot of redbuds and dogwoods in the forest. There's no place like it, really. During warm weather, the garden area is available; it can handle large groups.  The Valley is also available; it can handle even larger groups. The Story Inn is a favorite place for family reunions, weddings, company or club meetings, holiday parties and corporate retreats.