The co-owners of Guitar Wars hope the new store will be a kind of one-stop shop, offering more than retail items such as new and vintage guitars and other instruments. We will have guitar, piano, and drum lessons, said Josiah Kverno, a co-owner of Guitar Wars. It will be pretty much anything you need to be in a band. Guitar Wars will also have a live studio where bands can come in to prepare for a performance.
"Tupper & Reed have ventured into a most startling departure in the beautiful and artistic building. ... They have departed widely from the stereotyped style of store building, the structure having more the appearance of an old-world dwelling than of a modern place of business. ... W.R. Yelland, the architect, describes the building as rural European. It has all the appearance of northern Europe."