Antique Road Tour
My husband and I are driving to northern Vermont this summer and want to turn the trip there into a mini-antique road tour. We’re looking for mid-range furniture (a dresser, dining table, night stands) that is solidly built and not ornate. Our tentative plan is to drive up the Hudson Valley and cut east into…
My husband and I are driving to northern Vermont this summer and want to turn the trip there into a mini-antique road tour. We’re looking for mid-range furniture (a dresser, dining table, night stands) that is solidly built and not ornate. Our tentative plan is to drive up the Hudson Valley and cut east into VT around Saratoga. Does anyone have suggestions for good shops to visit? We don’t mind readjusting our route.
Agree Warren St in Hudson can be expensive, but we also some good bargains with some searching. There’s an armory type place off the main drag that’s kind of a clearinghouse, and they’ll hook you up with someone to deliver back to Brooklyn
Some of my favorite Hudson Valley places:
-Guy on Broadway in Newburgh (forgot the name, but it’s a large, double store)
-Dickenson’s, Main Street, Beacon
-Iron Fish and Relic for mid century in Beacon
-Stan the Junkman, Kingston for salvage
-Hoffman’s Barn, Red Hook, salvage
-Vintage Village, Highland
-Ravena, near Albany has a couple of shops
Hudson is expensive.
Most Vermont antique dealers (and State tourist information offices) have booklets put out by the VT Antique Dealers Assoc. with a directory and brief description of each shop–a reference well worth picking up at your first stop.
I recall a couple of years ago, after he completed the house reno blog which was the mainstay of this site for a while, Mr. Brownstoner went on an antiques road trip in upstate NY and blogged about it for a week. Check the archives. I recall as well that the lovely Mrs. Limestone had posting tree on this subject as well.
My favorite antique shop in N.Vermont is Farr’s in Danville. It’s on the southern end of the town (in a former feed store) on the road that goes between US 302 in Groton and and US 2 in Danville. That road, with the picturesque town of Peacham at it’s midpoint, is incredibly beautiful. I camped in the area for about 20 summers (at Ricker Pond,in Groton State Forest) and that’s always been my favorite road.
Someone was saying on the thread about the Atlantic Ave antique shops last week that many of the NYC antique dealers have relocated to the town of Hudson NY in Columbia County but there weren’t bargains there, it was pricey. I haven’t been to Hudson NY but I have read there are something like 80 antique stores in their downtown area.