Guthrie, Oklahoma has built a reputation as one of the state’s premier antiquing towns, with a cluster of malls lining West Oklahoma Avenue in the historic downtown district. Wisteria Antique Mall, housed in the Historic Lentz Building at 120 W. Oklahoma Ave., is one of several stops along that stretch, and it is run by Art Aguirre, a dealer with more than three decades of experience in the antiques trade. Aguirre also owns Magnolia Antique Mall a few doors down, and locals sometimes call Wisteria a hidden secret of the district, since first-time visitors walking the main block don’t always notice it tucked into its corner of the historic building.
The mall’s inventory is organized loosely around a timeline of Oklahoma history, starting with pieces from the Territorial era before statehood, moving through the ornate Victorian period, and continuing into twentieth-century Americana, including the bright, playful design sensibility of the fifties and sixties. That range means a single visit can turn up a piece of frontier-era furniture in one booth and a mid-century kitchen appliance or record player in the next, giving the mall broad appeal across different collecting interests and eras. Aguirre is known for sitting down with visitors and sharing stories behind individual pieces, drawing on his decades in the business to add context that a simple price tag never could.
Beyond the storefront itself, Aguirre extends the antiquing experience into the community by hosting an outdoor antique and vintage market each spring and fall in Guthrie, drawing regional vendors and collectors for a larger seasonal event beyond the mall’s regular floor. Those markets have become something local shoppers watch for, typically advertised starting in April, adding a rotating, open-air complement to the mall’s year-round indoor inventory.
Wisteria keeps steady weekday hours, open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with Saturday hours extending to 6 p.m. and Sunday running a shorter noon-to-5 p.m. window, a schedule built around weekend browsing traffic in the historic district. The mall’s location inside the Lentz Building places it within easy walking distance of Guthrie’s other well-known antique stops, including Magnolia Antique Mall, Country Corner, and Recollections Antique Mall, all clustered close enough together that visitors regularly treat downtown Guthrie as a single, multi-stop antiquing destination rather than a single-shop errand.
For collectors drawn to Oklahoma’s Territorial and statehood-era history, or simply looking for a knowledgeable dealer’s take on a piece of Victorian or mid-century furniture, Wisteria Antique Mall offers both inventory and expertise in one of the state’s most walkable antique districts. Wisteria Antique Mall is a historic-building antique shop in downtown Guthrie, Oklahoma, run by veteran dealer Art Aguirre, spanning Oklahoma Territorial-era through mid-century pieces and anchoring the town’s well-known antique shopping district.
