New Hope antique shops, one market running 150 years
Mourning brooches, Elvis records and a 30-acre flea market, all one town.
New Hope has fewer than 3,000 residents, and half of Main Street sells someone else's antiques. The list runs from a flea market older than most houses in town to a basement full of horror-movie props. October is a fine month for the spookier half of it.
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The oldest and largest flea market in Bucks County has run more than 150 years on 30 acres, with 400-plus vendors and doors open Tuesdays and Saturdays at 7 a.m., March through December.
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Out on Lower York Road, antiques and original furniture share the floor with Iron Orchid Designs and DIY paint, so the dresser you haul home doesn't have to stay brown. "Much bigger than it looks," Barbara says on Google.
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Born in New York's East Village in 1966 and on Main Street for more than 25 years, it racks clothing from the 1800s through the 1970s next to a deep bench of Elvis records.
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Donna Marian has sold Victorian mourning antiques and her hand-built Gothic Dead Dolls here since 2013. Ask about the Red Room, where haunted objects get vetted by paranormal teams before they go up for sale.
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Every French-country dresser and mirror on this stretch of South Main is restored in-house and one of a kind, so the piece you skip this week is usually gone by the next.
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Vintage cloaks and arcane antiques sit beside handmade wands and witches' brooms, open Friday through Sunday only, in a storefront the shop landed in March 2024.
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Down the basement stairs on South Main, screen-used horror props and masks mix with oddities and antiques; ten bucks gets you into the private collection, or it's free if you buy something.
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