After being located in the Historic Fairhaven Mills on Coggeshall Street in New Bedford, Mass for over twenty years, the center located to the Wamsutta Mills on 61 Wamsutta Street. The Wamsutta Mills was opened in 1856 and once housed the makers of the Famous Supercale Sheets. This newly renovated complex now houses over 250 up-scale apartments and our Center. New Bedford Antiques Center at Wamsutta Place, also within the Center, The New Bedford Museum of Glass has a Gallery featuring glass from the early periods, B.C. to the most contemporary, Kirk Nelson, the museum curator is world recognized as a scholar of glass types.

The Antique Center is a multi-dealer co-op that houses over 100 individual collectors; we are also a public consignment shop, featuring classic antiques to the whimsical! Our inventory is constantly changing from day to day. The in-house dealers taste range from early American to the Mid-Century stylings of Herman Miller and Knoll. Our glass dealers have one of a kind collections, from Pairpoint to Handel to Gouda to American Brilliant Cut-Glass. We have complete settings, to a tea-cup and saucer, if you’re looking for glass, you will find it here! Also within the two-story Center, yes two stories! You will find a vintage book store, a very unique plant store with many ideas for your home, a cast-iron and kitchen room, a clothing store that features men’s and women’s classic styling’s of the very vintage to the modern! Let us not forget the toy and collectible store, 9 Steps Down! From comics to action figures to political memorabilia to albums to the very strange to the very cool, 9 Steps Down has it!

Our staff is very keen on the different venues that appear at their door, one of the workers has been in the antiques business for over 45 years, and has worked on stripping furniture, to working auction houses. One of the female staff has been with the Center for over 20 years and is very good on the jewelry aspect of the business. The owner has been involved in the antique and collectible venues for over 30 years, from a dealer aspect, to a collector’s desire to own a piece. His feeling on the Center is that he is housing 100 unique little stores and the Center is their venue for showcasing their wares.