Downtown building home to two dressmakers 100 years apart

By Ron Burtz on Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Home of Dream Designs Bridal was built by a woman

  • Dream Designs Bridal Shop owner Deanna Powell stands next to one of the nearly 800 dresses in her shop. She recently learned that the building her shop has occupied for over 20 years was built by a seamstress at the turn of the 20th Century.
    Dream Designs Bridal Shop owner Deanna Powell stands next to one of the nearly 800 dresses in her shop. She recently learned that the building her shop has occupied for over 20 years was built by a seamstress at the turn of the 20th Century.
  • This photo from the archives of the Plainsman Museum shows some of the buildings on the north side of the square in Aurora, including the building currently owned by Deanna Powell, owner of Dream Designs Bridal Shop. (“J.C. Ruby” as pictured.)
    This photo from the archives of the Plainsman Museum shows some of the buildings on the north side of the square in Aurora, including the building currently owned by Deanna Powell, owner of Dream Designs Bridal Shop. (“J.C. Ruby” as pictured.)
    When she talks about her life-long passion and career as a seamstress, Deanna Powell, owner of Dream Designs Bridal Shop on the north side of the square in Aurora, speaks with a sense of destiny and even divine purpose. So last spring when she learned something new about the building that has been her business location for the past 22 years, she had the feeling she was meant to be there. ...

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