Over the course of its 27-year history, Levin & Company Community Booksellers in Healdsburg, Calif., has gone from an exclusively used bookstore to a predominantly new store with an attached art gallery, the Press Democrat reported.
The store has moved once, and the owners opened the Upstairs Art Gallery around 21 years ago, an effort that grew out of members of the Santa Rosa Art Guild looking for a space to display their work. The artists pay "monthly rent and a 20% commission to the gallery." Since its opening, some 60 artists have displayed their work in the gallery.
Current owner Aaron Rosewater is the son of Adele Levin, who co-founded the store with her business partner, Jacquie Robb. Rosewater bought out Robb in 2001. Carolyn Wilson has managed the store since around 2011.
"It's a perfect match--the gallery and the books," Wilson told the Press Democrat.