Chocolatier reworking historic building after structural collapse

Chocolatier Kelly Reetz looks over the remains of the nearly century-old building that housed his candy company. Photos by Sarah Brown

A colorful display of purple, red and white lay strewn across the ground like a Jackson Pollock art project made from brick, stucco and paint.

Reetz collects intact antique clay tiles to be used for a later project.

This was no art project but, rather, the remains of an old building in Lebanon originally built in the 1930s.

Much of the building blocks for what is currently the Victorian Chocolate company were torn down on…