Do you have a local place that you enjoy exploring?
For us, it’s Market Street Antiques, a local antiques store in the neighboring town of Onancock, VA. The wonderful old door knobs featured in last week’s Friday Funnies post were just a few of the items on display in this store. There’s SO much more . . .
Before being converted to its current use, the building last housed a hardware store, House of Deals, renowned for having some of the most unusual items, including the pecan cracker I received a couple of years ago as a Christmas gift. It’s still used when pecan season comes in the fall.
The back showroom, where Ford motor cars were once serviced, has over 2,000 sq. feet of architectural salvage with many one-of-a kind items. Owners Jeff & Christine Miller gathered inventory from Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Jeff specializes in taking down old buildings. Some salvage items are added to the store. Salvaged wood is remade into furniture by Jeff.
There’s a wish list book where folks can enter items they’re looking for along with contact information. The Millers will notify them if they find any of the items.
13 comments:
Very neat place. I wouldn't mind poking around there with my camera.
Wonderful post and photos ! Papa and I love antiquing we have a favotite antique shop more like an old ware house we go to from time to time. Our youngest son loves to collect old type writers he would love these ! Have a great day !
Looks like a fun place to visit! I imagine you could find all sorts of treasures there. :)
One of the best things about living in the "country" is discovering wonderful places like this! In the "city, you can still find places that sell antiques and vintage stuff...but it costs 3 times as much! :)
That old typewriter takes the cake!
Yeah, as the old antique places close down and we were left with only the expensive shops, this place is fun.
The building also was a furniture store back before the Lewis's House of Deals.
And the parking lot next door used to have a really nice restaurant on it.
Onancock's building history is amazing.
glad you found it and had some fun.
Pretty fun place, it is amazing how one sorts out good from not so good.
Looks like fun. But I'd rather peruse old book stores! The dustier and mustier the better!
i am sorry to say we have nothing like this here, if so i would be wandering there a lot. this is wonderful.
The Weald and Downland museum here in West Sussex rescues old buildings and rebuilds them brick by brick. Great place to visit.
I would love to walk around there :-) I don't think we have anything like that around here but closer to the big cities.
Have a great day!
Christer.
That would be so much fun to explore. We do have some antique stores here, but they just don't compare with what's available on the East Coast.
Now that looks like the kind of place you can find some real junk, OOps, I meant treasures in!
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