A shoppers’ paradise!
Not a recreated mall streetscape, North Main
Street offers a charming eclectic group of stores
in an historic neighborhood. Energetic
entrepreneurs will welcome you to their shops and galleries offering unique
merchandise and items not found elsewhere – everything from contemporary
crafts, pottery, jewelry, beads, silk fabrics and antique Indian saris, to
decorative accessories ranging from antique, to vintage, to new. There are two stores featuring mid-century
furnishings and accessories, a large antique store offering everything from
armoires to doorstops, and several artists’ cooperatives. In addition to galleries and merchants
offering artwork (Base Art, Enjoy The Arts, Classical Glass, Main Street
Gallery, Urban Eden, Kaldi’s Coffeehouse, Herman-Miller Gallery), DesignSmith
and Mainly Art also offer mid-century furnishings and accessories, Greg’s
Antiques offers everything from armoires to doorstops, Vintage Poster Bank
offers technical objects and ephemera, and Kunlan-kaa features personally
imported African artifacts. Addicted 2
Luxury offers fabulous clothing and accessories, Kese Couture produces and
sells one-of-a-kind jeans, and Ink Tank offers a changing array of unusual
items in their “Rubbish! The Perpetual Yard Sale.” The North Main
Street shopping district extends to New World
Studio and Publico, on Clay Street, and to the Art Academy’s galleries (entrance on Jackson Street.)
May thru October, visit the Second Sunday street market along Main Street between 12th and Liberty Streets where you’ll find artisans and vendors as well as street entertainment.
