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Unique Stores in Maine

Maine’s unusual-store routes favor places that unfold beyond the sales counter into barns, upper floors, handmade landscapes, and roadside history. Hussey's General Store spreads groceries, hardware, clothing, guns, gifts, and even bridal wear through a Windsor mercantile. On Deer Isle, Nervous Nellie's Jams & Jellies joins preserves and gifts to an outdoor village of handmade sculptures and buildings. Near Ellsworth, Big Chicken Barn Books & Antiques fills a former poultry barn with books, antiques, paper collectibles, and long aisles worth wandering. These three stops set the tone before the complete Maine directory below.

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Ellsworth, ME
Big Chicken Barn Books & Antiques
A 21,600-square-foot former Ellsworth chicken barn where a sprawling antique floor sits beneath a second level holding more than 150,000 books and paper collectibles — alongside a vintage-magazine operation the business says exceeds 50,000 issues.
Big Chicken Barn turns a relic of Maine's poultry era into a two-story collecting universe: antiques and household objects below, mountains of books, magazines, newspapers and paper ephemera above.
Antiques & vintageBooks, records & mediaHome goods & furnitureApparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmadeToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsHardware & toolsOther
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Windsor, ME
Hussey's General Store
A sprawling Windsor general store where groceries and a butcher counter lead to hardware, feed, sporting goods, clothing, home furnishings and an appointment-only bridal department — the Maine institution behind the famous ‘guns, wedding gowns, cold beer’ sign.
Hussey's turns the old one-stop rural mercantile idea up to an almost implausible scale, combining everyday groceries and hardware with sporting goods, clothing, farm supplies, furnishings and a serious bridal department.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHardware & toolsFarm & gardenOutdoor, hunting & fishingApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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Liberty, ME
Liberty Tool Company
A three-story Liberty institution where thousands of used, vintage and antique tools dominate the first floor before the building turns into vendor-filled levels of antiques, books, artwork, glassware, vintage clothing, home décor and whatever else has arrived this week.
Liberty Tool Company begins as a serious secondhand tool dealer and gradually transforms, floor by floor, into an antique market, book-and-paper shop, vintage-clothing hunt and general repository of one-of-a-kind things.
Hardware & toolsAntiques & vintageBooks, records & mediaApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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Deer Isle, ME
Nervous Nellie's Jams & Jellies
A Deer Isle jam kitchen and Maine-made gift shop surrounded by several acres of handmade sculpture environments, where preserves lead outside to a Western town, saloon, jail, juke joint, castle, wizard's tower and other pieces of Peter Beerits' ever-growing Nellieville.
Nervous Nellie's makes jams and chutneys by hand and sells them alongside Maine-made crafts and gifts, while the woods and meadow outside have evolved into an entire handmade village of sculptures, buildings and invented places.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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Belfast, ME
Perry's Nut House
A Belfast Route 1 institution selling homemade fudge, nuts, candy, ice cream, Maine gifts and toys beneath a roadside menagerie that currently includes a stuffed gorilla, alligator and python hides, trick mirrors, murals and a curiosity the store calls its mummified body.
Perry's Nut House keeps the old American roadside-attraction formula alive by combining a working candy, fudge, nut and gift business with a restored assortment of strange displays and visual gags.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwearToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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