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Local Foundery is a downtown Lee’s Summit shop for locally made and vintage goods, opened in 2019 by Dave Eames and Ben Wine, with many pieces handcrafted by regional makers or built at their connected makerspace, Fossil Forge.

  • Name: Local Foundery
  • Type: Maker-goods and vintage retail
  • Owner: Founded by Dave Eames and Ben Wine1; current operator
  • Established: April 6, 2019 (307 SW Market St)1; moved to 15 SE 3rd St, fall 20212
  • Address: 15 SE 3rd Street, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063 (current)32
  • Phone: (816) 819-01713
  • Signature: Locally made furniture, leather goods, jewelry, and décor plus one-of-a-kind vintage finds1
  • Status: Open- Tier: 1## Description

Local Foundery curates locally made and vintage objects from Kansas City, Jackson County, and Lee’s Summit — furniture, prints, leather goods, jewelry, gifts, stationery, apparel, and décor. Many items are handcrafted by regional makers, and several are designed and custom-built at the owners’ nearby makerspace, Fossil Forge. The stock also runs to one-of-a-kind vintage pieces, from a Shell gas pump to Chamber of Commerce mementos.14

The Downtown Lee’s Summit directory files the shop under Collectibles, Gifts + Antiques; Clothing, Jewelry + Accessories; Home Decor; and Specialty Shops + Boutiques — retail categories only.3

Ownership and history

Local Foundery opened April 6, 2019 at 307 SW Market Street in downtown Lee’s Summit, owned by Dave Eames and Ben Wine. The shop’s premise is to showcase “the new and old” — antique finds beside newly made goods — sourced and, in many cases, built locally through their connected Fossil Forge makerspace.1

Lee’s Summit City Lifestyle records that Eames and Wine moved the shop from Market Street to a more prominent spot at 15 3rd Street in the fall of 2021 (“closed and moved in within four days”). The article prints “15 SW 3rd Street”; the Downtown Lee’s Summit directory listing walked 2026-08-26 prints 15 Southeast 3rd Street. First-party directory spelling is preferred for the current pin; the SW/SE difference is logged, not silently resolved.23

Current operator after the founding pair is ****. A February 2025 Link 2 Lee’s Summit podcast writeup names Brian Pilachowski of Press Monkey Studio as “the new owner”; that page 429’d on fetch 2026-08-26 and is not used to overwrite the infobox. What is first-party: localfoundery.com now serves Press Monkey Studio LLC (Pleasant Hill graphic/print studio), not a Foundery storefront — the same domain-trap noted in the 2026-07-17 backfill, re-checked 2026-08-26.5

Last verified: 2026-08-26 · Source: Downtown Lee’s Summit directory listing (walked) + Lee’s Summit Chamber “New to Town” feature (live Cloudflare 403; Wayback 2026-03-08 and 2025-08-12 captures of the same 2019 article) · URL(s): https://downtownls.org/directory/listing/local-foundery · https://www.lschamber.com/local_foundery/ · https://web.archive.org/web/20260308075519/https://lschamber.com/local_foundery/ · Confidence: High that this is non-food retail · menu_status: na

None — maker-goods and vintage retail only. Walked the first-party surfaces that exist (no working own-domain storefront) on 2026-08-26:

  • Downtown Lee’s Summit directory — live HTTP 200. Categories: Collectibles, Gifts + Antiques; Clothing, Jewelry + Accessories; Home Decor; Specialty Shops + Boutiques. Address 15 Southeast 3rd Street; phone (816) 819-0171; only outbound business link is Facebook (facebook.com/localfoundery/). No café, coffee, food, drinks, or menu field on the listing body.3
  • Lee’s Summit Chamber “New to Town: Local Foundery” — live lschamber.com/local_foundery/ is Cloudflare 403 (“Just a moment…”) from this pass. Wayback captures through 2026-03-08 still serve the 9 April 2019 article: furniture, prints, leather goods, jewelry, gifts, stationery, apparel, décor; many items built at Fossil Forge; no café, no food counter, no priced drinks list.1
  • Own domain — localfoundery.com / www.localfoundery.com resolve and redirect to Press Monkey Studio LLC (pressmonkeystudio.com, Pleasant Hill web/print studio). Not a Foundery café, cart, or menu. Same trap as the 2026-07-17 backfill; re-confirmed 2026-08-26.5
  • Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/localfoundery/ is the shop’s only official channel. Curl and mbasic both loginwall (HTTP 400 / login). Not used for prices or a food claim.

Trap — 2019 patio “coffee or cocktails” quote is not a café. The chamber feature quotes Dave Eames on a hoped-for front patio: “We hope people will enjoy coffee or cocktails out here with spring and summer weather.” That is a hangout vision for Fourth Fridays, not a published food-and-drink menu, and no later first-party page walked here stands up a café, wine bar, or refreshment counter.1

Aggregator reviews that mention a pizza truck at the 15 SE 3rd address are excluded (not first-party; likely a downtown event vendor, not Foundery food service). Do not import.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Lee’s Summit Chamber of Commerce, “New to Town: Local Foundery” (9 April 2019). Live URL returned Cloudflare 403 on 2026-08-26. Content walked from Wayback web.archive.org (also captured 2025-08-12; same article). — asserts: owners Dave Eames and Ben Wine; grand opening April 6, 2019 at 307 SW Market St; sells locally made and vintage furniture, prints, leather goods, jewelry, gifts, stationery, apparel, décor; many items built at connected makerspace Fossil Forge; 2019 hours noon–7 p.m. Wed–Fri and 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Sat (historical); patio “coffee or cocktails” framed as a hope, not a café menu. No food-service offering in the article. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. John Beaudoin, “Forging ahead with vision,” originally published in Lee’s Summit City Lifestyle (retrieved 2026-08-26). — asserts: Dave Eames and Ben Wine opened Local Foundery on Market Street in 2019 and moved in fall 2021 to “a more prominent spot at 15 SW 3rd Street”; Ben: “We got our training wheels on in that first location. We closed and moved in within four days.” Article prints SW; downtown directory prints SE — first-party directory preferred for the current pin. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Downtown Lee’s Summit — directory listing, Local Foundery (retrieved 2026-08-26, HTTP 200). — asserts: title Local Foundery; categories Collectibles, Gifts + Antiques, Clothing, Jewelry + Accessories, Home Decor, Specialty Shops + Boutiques; address 15 Southeast 3rd Street, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063; phone (816) 819-0171; outbound “website” facebook.com. No café, food, coffee, drinks, or menu field. Page modified_time 2024-05-20. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. Yelp listing, Local Foundery (307 B SW Market St, Lee’s Summit) — asserts: active downtown Lee’s Summit retail listing updated into October 2025; one-of-a-kind vintage inventory. Address on Yelp is the 2019 Market Street pin, not the current 15 SE 3rd directory address. ↩

  5. localfoundery.com / www.localfoundery.com (retrieved 2026-08-26) — asserts: DNS resolves (15.197.225.128 / 3.33.251.168); HTTPS 200 serves Press Monkey Studio LLC (pressmonkeystudio.com, 30405 Woodland Drive, Pleasant Hill, MO 64080), a graphic/print studio, not Local Foundery. Not a Foundery menu, cart, or café. ↩ ↩2

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On the record — ks.city/registry/local-foundery · record updated 2026-08-26