While it has long been an easy weekend getaway as well as second-home destination for New Yorkers, the Hudson Valley including the Catskills area is having yet another surge of visitors and real estate hunters. Trends aside, the region has steadily been a magnet for antiques hunters, collectors, and designers over the decades to visit and shop. Thanks to its proximity to the Hudson River—the waterway made for fertile, productive land full of opportunity, as well as easy transport of goods to the city by merchants—the region, over time, has housed many generations of makers and craftspeople and developed deep, diverse roots in the arts.
Today, the antique stores in the region range from multiple-floor warehouses and barns with thousands of square feet of furnishings to fleeting annual outdoor shows and stalls, all carrying their own unique collections of art, furniture, decor, oddities, clothing, and thrifty items. But our favorites are the small and highly specialised shops, often on or near the towns’ main throughways, and where the owners are likely present every day to tell you the story of each and every piece. These 8 shops are, to us, among the best antique stores in the Hudson Valley.
Kabinett & Kammer - Franklin, NY
In this tiny village in Delaware County (population near 400), a curiosity shop with a specialty in 19th century farmhouse antiques brings in-the-kn0w visitors from all over. Owner Sean Scherer has said he thinks of Kabinett & Kammer as a revolving work of art itself, and within it he creates one of a kind vignettes with items such as vintage botanical, medical, and zoological prints, antique boxes, mirrors, stools, transferware platters, and furnishings. Blending items from different periods, colors, and shapes—and with light streaming in from ceiling-high windows—he manages to create a clean and contemporary feel among his historic finds. 422 Main St, Franklin, NY
Maison Bergogne - Narrowsburg, NY
This industrial building from the 1920s (a 4,500 square-foot former bus depot) was boarded up when Maison Bergogne owner Juliette Hermant found it. Hermant, who’s from a small town in northern France, moved to the US by way of Paris. At her sprawling shop, located in the old logging town of Narrowsburg along the Catskills’ Delaware River, she now performs design services, using the shop as a place to collect as well as create: She makes large floral compositions or forest-derived holiday decor for sale in addition to her design work. The shop often contains plenty of taxidermy, salvaged shutters, sinks, doors and ladders, and decorative oddities like animal skulls, vintage ice skate blades, and antique game boards. 226 Bridge St, Narrowsburg, NY
John Eaton Gallery - Hudson, NY
Owned by an antique dealer who formerly operated a small shop on East 9th Street in New York City’s East Village, this gallery of sorts, in a near 1,000-square foot loft, was previously an industrial truck-tire maintenance garage. Eaton’s collection is on the timber-heavy side—he has an eye for blending woods in interesting ways—but the shop overall has an elegant and artistic formality with a mix of materials and objects. His collection perpetually includes a majority of work from local artists, as well as furnishings like mid century modern armchairs, massive vintage pillar candles, and lamps. Interior designers from the city can often be spotted scouting wares here. The Warehouse, 99 South Front Street, Door 15, Space No. 64, Hudson
Montage Antiques - Millerton, NY
The turnover is fast at this Dutchess County favorite near the border of Connecticut, partially because prices are reasonable and new inventory comes in on the regular. (The owner’s advice to patrons who ask: Follow the shop on Instagram for a better chance at getting first dibs.) Findings seem to always include a collection of substantial wooden country tables, consoles, and furniture, and might also encompass vintage quilts, Batik screens from the 70s, and Gothic-style library ladders. 25 Main St, Millerton, NY
Pidgin - Oak Hill, NY
Freshly opened in 2021 in Oak Hill in a landmarked Italianate building, this weekend or by-appointment shop is the project of Kostas Anagnopoulos, self-described poet, collector, and former style director of the NYC creative studio Aesthetic Movement. In what was once the town general store and then a record shop and located just 30 minutes west of Hudson, the neat, timber-paneled vintage store is a worthwhile side trip for furniture and quirky and homespun objects such as a massive driftwood lamp, handmade stoneware platters and woven textiles, and abstract ceramic sculptures. The owner also jars and self-labels quality honey and olive oil from the properties and gardens of friends and family. If you miss the store hours, Anagnopoulos’ cell phone number is written on the store window. 7811 NY-81, Oak Hill, NY
Red Chair on Warren - Hudson, NY
Warren Street nowadays is practically filled with antique stores and galleries, but Red Chair remains the one to gush over. Every surface, shelf, and corner is bursting with Belgian, Swedish, Dutch, and especially French wares from the 17th-19th century and in owner Jocelyn Sinauer’s now-signature faded white and off-white palette. Objects big and small (from bakers racks and storage furniture to copper saucepans, cutting boards and cafe glasses) line what was once the old whaling house built in the 1800s, and in a small garden in the back, there are terra cotta planters, vintage garden tables, ad more.
606 Warren St, Hudson, NY
