If you love history, you can’t step up to Westville Brewery without feeling a little giddy.
The big garage door beside the town’s iconic sidewalk clock on Broadway offers windows resembling portholes that allow you to peek inside at South Jersey’s newest brewery.
It’s clear this space was once a firehouse, or rather, half of a firehouse — the portion that housed a ladder truck for the former Westville North Station. When two fire companies within the borough consolidated to form one new unit in the late '80s, everything was relocated to the South Station, on Olive and Broadway.
Before the brewery's partners converted the space, this portion of the building was vacant for some time. Before that, it had been used as offices for a fruit arrangement business, but the throw-back garage door was left tucked against the ceiling when the space was subdivided into offices.