Residents who toured the refurbished Fort Seward Fire Hall during a Sunday open house had praise for it and owners Joanne Waterman and Phyllis Sage.

“They were so brave to take this on, to conceive of that vision and say, ‘Yes, we can handle it,’” said resident Leanne Converse, one of about 70 people who turned out on a foggy afternoon to see the nearly completed building. Recent interior work includes a stairway made with…