Mountain View Hotel Antiques

This antique store is in an 1800s hotel that was on the main street and right next to the train tracks. You can still see a large part of the original layout of the hotel. The first floor had a side entrance with double doors but the enclosed stairway that was originally there is gone. The front staircase is still the original and would have been near the front desk. There were most likely no rooms on the first floor due to the time period. The first floor would most likely have had a dining room, lobby areas, and offices. A kitchen would have been detached from the building completely.
The second floor still has the front balcony overlooking main street and an old staircase on the rear of the building that is all metal. One of the original bedrooms has been left as a small history/​museum area where a dentist had once used the former hotel room as an office and left his old equipment there when he retired.
The hotel was also used as a hardware store at one time and was most likely the reason a lot of the interior walls on the first floor were removed.
The store has an incredible collection of antiques as many different dealers have their collections on sale versus just one dealer. This tends to lead to better finds because all dealers tend to collect different types of items.
The pricing is a little on the high side for some items but I have found a great number of items that I consider very reasonable. Of course, if you think an item is overpriced, it’s not a chain store, negotiate!
Even if you are not really a hardcore antique hunter this is a really neat place to explore. It brought back many memories of my grandparents who had some of the same items that I hadn’t seen anywhere else before.
So, check this place out, what’s the risk?

Most of the pieces aren’t special enough to warrant the high price tag. And I hate that they made me lock up my purse, I was the only person in the whole store. Pass on this place.