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The Antique Trail of Connecticut: Woodbury's Dealers, Shop by Shop

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Part of Antique Trail of CT

Woodbury's antiques dealers share one address book. Fifteen shops and galleries stand on Main Street North or Main Street South, and a Saturday flea market sits where Route 6 meets Route 64. The Woodbury Antiques Dealers Association — a Connecticut nonprofit registered at 40 Main Street North — lists them, and the Connecticut Office of Tourism carries many of the same addresses under a Woodbury Antiques Trail entry.

This guide takes them in street-number order, Main Street North first and then Main Street South, and gives each dealer's address and what it deals in. Hours are the weak point of the record: several of these shops open by appointment or by chance, and several publish hours that contradict either themselves or the state listing. Where a source gives hours, this guide names the source. Telephone first.

  1. 12 Main Street North: antique and vintage furniture, mirrors, artwork, lighting, collectibles, ceramics, and glassware, with The Silver Spur equestrian consignment upstairs.

  2. 40 Main Street North: antique and semi-antique rugs — Persian, Chinese, Turkish, Indian, American Indian, hooked, and Pakistani — plus appraisals, washing, and restoration.

  3. 50 Main Street North: original American Federal period furniture with a written guarantee of authenticity. The dealers' association lists the business as Schwenke Group LLC; the state tourism site still uses the earlier name Thomas Schwenke, Inc.

  4. 82 Main Street North: folk art, furniture, art pottery, primitives, collectibles, and ephemera, plus appraisals. The state tourism listing instructs visitors to call ahead.

  5. 245 Main Street North: registered as The Coop-Antiques LLC at that address, with Richard Albano as dealer. No source states a specialism.

  6. 1068 Main Street North: antique furniture and decorative arts catalogued by category, plus custom furniture and restoration. Two pages of its own site give conflicting hours.

  7. 113 Main Street South, with Peggy Heminway as proprietor. Not to be confused with Art Pappas Antiques, which trades at the Center but has its own address at 161.

  8. 161 Main Street South: American furniture from the Pilgrim Century through mid-century modern, architectural antiques, fireplace equipment, paintings, pottery, and stoneware. Open by chance or appointment; the salvage stock is by appointment only.

  9. 289 Main Street South: English, American, and Continental furniture. A member of the dealers' association, with Gary Sergeant as the named dealer.

  10. 358 Main Street South, by appointment: American antiques and folk art — weathervanes, folk paintings and sculpture, formal and country furniture, Shaker design, decoys, and Windsor chairs. The gallery publishes scholarship as well as stock.

  11. 373 Main Street South: European, American, and Asian antique art, paintings, porcelain, and furniture of the 18th to early 20th century, across five decorated rooms. Owner Cynthia Pollock is Madeline West's daughter.

  12. 451 Main Street South: antiques and folk art of the 17th to 19th centuries, with an emphasis on early furniture and on form, condition, and surface. Three sources give three different sets of hours.

  13. 495 Main Street South: primitive and country furniture and accessories, with Julie and Martin Overton as dealers.

  14. 742 Main Street South in the Middle Quarter — a framer, conservator, and fine art gallery rather than an antiques retailer, selling works of art on paper. One of the few on this street with fixed walk-in hours.

  15. 994 Main Street South: Pilgrim-era American furniture — Jacobean, William & Mary, Queen Anne — with period accessories, treen, painted high country furniture, and folk art. Daily by appointment, April to December, per the state tourism listing.

  16. Where Route 6 meets Route 64, run by the Kaloidis family. The state tourism site points visitors here on Saturdays; neither source describing it carries a date.

Reading the addresses

Every dealer on this trail carries a Main Street address, and the Connecticut Office of Tourism gives several of them with the Route 6 designation — 1068 Main Street North (Rte. 6), 373 Main Street South (Rte. 6), 451 Main Street South (Rte. 6). The numbers run independently on the two halves, so 12 Main Street North and 994 Main Street South are both real addresses on the same street.

Two of them are easy to conflate, and one directory does conflate them. The Main Street Antiques Center is at 113 Main Street South, where the Connecticut Secretary of State's principals file records the proprietor the dealers' association names. Art Pappas Antiques describes itself as trading at the Center, but its own address is 161 Main Street South, and the state registry holds no entity of any kind at 161. They are two entries, not one.

Hours, appointments, and telephones

Several of these dealers keep no predictable walk-in hours, and the published record is unreliable often enough that a telephone call is the only dependable step.

David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles show by appointment. Art Pappas Antiques is open by chance or appointment, and its architectural salvage is by appointment only. The Connecticut Office of Tourism lists Pantry & Hearth as daily by appointment with an April to December season, and tells visitors to Wayne Mattox Antiques to call ahead.

Where sources disagree, this guide publishes no hours at all: Mill House Antiques & Gardens gives conflicting hours on two pages of its own site, Kocian DePasqua has three different patterns across three sources, and the Farmhouse Antiques tourism listing contradicts itself inside a single field. Clapp & Tuttle and Villa Vintiques both publish fixed hours on their own sites, and Clapp & Tuttle welcomes walk-ins.

The association and its courtesy list

The Woodbury Antiques Dealers Association is a registered Connecticut nonprofit with an address at 40 Main Street North. Its site publishes two lists, not one: a set of members, and below it a longer list headed "Other Woodbury Antiques Dealers Include". The distinction matters, because a shop on the second list is not a member and this guide does not call it one.

Pantry & Hearth, G. Sergeant, Madeline West, Kocian DePasqua, David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles, Wayne Mattox, and Clapp & Tuttle appear among the members. The rest either appear on the courtesy list, or are carried by the association without its stating which list they belong to.

Frequently asked questions

Can I walk into these shops without an appointment?
Not all of them. David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles show by appointment. Art Pappas Antiques is open by chance or appointment, with its architectural salvage by appointment only. The Connecticut Office of Tourism lists Pantry & Hearth as daily by appointment. Clapp & Tuttle publishes fixed hours and welcomes walk-ins, and Villa Vintiques publishes fixed hours on its own site.
Which shops are members of the Woodbury Antiques Dealers Association?
The association's site separates its members from a longer list headed "Other Woodbury Antiques Dealers Include". Pantry & Hearth, G. Sergeant, Madeline West, Kocian DePasqua, David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles, Wayne Mattox, and Clapp & Tuttle appear among the members.
Why does this guide publish so few opening hours?
Because the sources contradict each other. Mill House Antiques & Gardens publishes different hours on two pages of its own site, Kocian DePasqua has three patterns across three sources, and the Farmhouse Antiques tourism listing contradicts itself in one field. Rather than pick a winner, this guide gives the telephone number.
Is the Main Street Antiques Center the same thing as Art Pappas Antiques?
No. The Main Street Antiques Center is at 113 Main Street South. Art Pappas Antiques describes itself as trading at the Center but has its own address at 161 Main Street South. One directory gives the Center's address as 161; the Connecticut business registry holds no entity there at all.
Is there a flea market?
The Connecticut Office of Tourism's Woodbury Antiques Trail entry tells visitors to see the Antiques Flea Market on Saturdays where the trail crosses Route 64, and the dealers' association lists it at Route 6 and 64, run by the Kaloidis family. Neither source carries a date, so telephone 203-263-6217 before setting out.
Is every shop on this trail an antiques dealer?
No. Clapp & Tuttle Custom Framing & Fine Art at 742 Main Street South is a picture framer, conservator, and fine art gallery, selling works of art on paper rather than antiques, and it belongs to the dealers' association all the same.

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