14 Best Shopping in Hudson Valley, New York

This eclectic gallery, set in an Art Deco former gas station in the center of town, is curated by well-known architect Michael Davis. The shop showcases mid-century and vintage furniture, lighting, textiles, jewelry, and other decorative items you didn't realize you needed until you saw them here.

Antiques fill the warren of rooms at the Barking Dog, in business since 1984. You won't find the ubiquitous here, and nearly everything dates from before the 1920s. The shop specializes in country pieces, such as pine tables and cupboards, and folk art, and also offers old prints and paintings.

More than 30 antiques dealers sell their wares at the Beekman Arms Antique Market, which occupies a large red barn behind the Beekman Arms. The antiques mix is eclectic, with Americana, Victorian, country, and primitive pieces represented.

More than 25 dealers in antiques, vintage clothes, jewelry, art, and collectibles hawk their wares in Bijou Galleries, a jam-packed emporium.

The largest antiques center in the county, the 5,000-square-foot Downtown Gallery teems with furniture from Victorian through modern periods, vintage textiles and clothes, and collectible toys.

This center houses many antiques dealers under one roof. The goods—art-deco furnishings, old cameras and typewriters, Victrolas, jadeite—are just as varied and sell quickly.

For the best prices in town, check out the Millbrook Antique Center, an emporium with two floors of antiques and collectibles from over 25 dealers. There's a garden room where you can find marble statues, bird baths, and water fountains during the summer.

With over 25 dealers, the Millbrook Antiques Mall is the largest fine-antiques center for miles around. Almost every antiques category is represented: country furniture, botanical prints, porcelain, brass fireplace tools. The dealer collections create a series of nicely edited and presented boutique spaces.

Vintage garden pots, carousel horses, and antique board games are among a few of the finds you can browse through at Milne's At Home Antiques. The owner is a second-generation antiques dealer and is happy to help you search through the store for the perfect addition to your home.

Located in the heart of stroll-friendly Piermont, Ned Kelly & Company offers unusual home and garden furnishings, along with fresh flowers. Shoppers will find a mix of new and antique pieces that include luxurious throw blankets, china patterns, upholstered furniture, and deftly assembled fresh bouquets.

One of the best-known and -loved antiques fairs in the country, the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair showcases more than 200 dealers in four large exhibition halls. The fair, held twice a year (in May and October), interests both casual and serious collectors.

Multiple dealers of delightful antiques and other old stuff, much of it reflecting the neighborhood's nautical past, occupy Skillypot Antiques.

The archetype of Hudson antiques shops is Theron Ware: a single storefront populated with rare and pricey treasures. It specializes in European and American antiques and artworks from the 17th through the 19th century, but also has tribal and Native American art, antiquities, and contemporary art.

Art-directed spiral-shape potted trees flank the double doors of the beautifully restored 1850s church that houses Yellow Church Antiques. The fine (usually very expensive) antiques include English, American, and Continental furniture, and paintings and carpets from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.