Community service has always been an important part of Gethsemane Lutheran Church's mission.

A rough-and-ready storefront in a former auto shop turns up the volume for a renegade wine producer.

A two-level, 42,000-square-foot headquarters for the fine-art exhibitions of the Whatcom Museum, which focuses on the history and art of the Northwest. 

Ano-nonsense brick structure built in 1910 to house Chinese laborers, the East Kong Yick Building lacked the kind of architectural features that provide excitement when an old building becomes a museum.