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Local Foundery is a downtown Lee’s Summit shop for locally made and vintage goods, run 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: Dave Eames and Ben Wine1
  • Established: April 6, 20191
  • Address: 307 SW Market Street, Lee’s Summit, MO 640631
  • 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.12

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

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Footnotes

  1. Lee’s Summit Chamber of Commerce, “New to Town: Local Foundery.” https://www.lschamber.com/local_foundery/ — asserts: owners Dave Eames and Ben Wine; opened April 6, 2019; 307 SW Market Street; sells locally made and vintage furniture, prints, leather goods, jewelry, gifts, stationery, apparel, décor; many items built at connected makerspace Fossil Forge. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. Yelp listing, Local Foundery (307 B SW Market St, Lee’s Summit). https://www.yelp.com/biz/local-foundery-lees-summit — asserts: active downtown Lee’s Summit retail listing updated into October 2025; one-of-a-kind vintage inventory. ↩

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