Antique Shops in Concord, MA
Kelly Kilmer was here the last two weeks teaching classes in Westford and Whitman, MA. We had a blast. Kelly took my advice and went to Concord, MA to visit Nesting on Main. She came home and said I have to go back BUT they are closed on Mondays. I took this as a personal challenge. I called the owner, explained who I was and next thing I knew they were opening the store for us on Monday.
Nesting on Main is by far my favorite shop in Massachusetts for ephemera. They are located at 44 Main Street, Concord, MA. While we were there we visited all the other local antique shops. I learned a couple of weeks ago from a student, that the owners of the shops in Concord had recently returned from the Provence Flea Markets. I’ve been there three times now, and the stock is always changing.
Thoreauly Antiques - 25 Walden Street
Upstairs Antiques - 23 Walden Street
North Bridge Antiques - 28 Walden Street - this includes the antique book shop as well
On Monday morning I left to pick up everyone that was going to Concord. Sam, Sharyn, Kelly, and Tristan all joined me. We arrived in Concord a 1/2 hour before Nesting on Main was opening for us, so I took everyone to Thoreauly Antiques. This is a great place to find inexpensive ephemera. Sharyn found an old package of gummed labels. I found a bag of black letters on white heavy board, maps, vintage labels, etc. Kelly found some old alphabet and number stamps, and Sam found the complete works of William Shakespeare! It was like hitting the lottery!!!!
From there we went to Nesting on Main. Below are some pictures of the store. Kelly and I spent some time going through all the black and white vintage photos. There are a ton there. We could have spent days going through them. In one the pictures below is a picture of the back room with the chest of drawers. Each drawer is full of wonderful surprises: skeleton keys, black and white vintage photos, letters, drawer pulls, etc. This is my favorite room.
We visited the other antique shops, North Bridge and Upstairs on Main. We didn’t find much at Upstairs on Main, but I did find some old french postcards at North Bridge.
While in town I always check the clearance room at Footstock. There are great deals on Birkenstocks, Naot, Donald Pliner, Ariats, and tons of other designers in the clearance room. If you are traveling with kids you must visit the Toy Shop of Concord and the ice cream shop below Nesting on Main.
I leave you with some photos of Nesting on Main. I took these pictures on my G1 phone so they aren’t the greatest but you still get to see the goodies in the store!
You give darn good hooting tooting shopping advice.
Other then back to Concord, where are we trekking to in December
August 28th, 2009 at 7:51 pm