Nonna’s Antiques opened its doors on October 19, 2023, at 3100 Earl L. Core Road in Morgantown, West Virginia, tucked into the Sabraton area just off Interstate 68 at exit 4, a location that makes it an easy stop for shoppers coming through Morgantown rather than a destination buried deep in a neighborhood. The shop is owned by Debbie Roth, who spent roughly thirty years building and running B and D hair salon in the Morgantown area before turning a lifelong love of collecting into a second career. Roth has described the antiques business as, in effect, the memory business, since so much of what draws customers in is not the resale value of an item but the jolt of recognition when they spot something identical to what sat on a grandparent’s shelf or kitchen counter decades earlier.
Across two full floors, Nonna’s Antiques carries the kind of broad, genuinely nostalgic mix that supports that memory-business framing: vintage lunch boxes, old console radios, colorful Fiesta glassware, antique furniture, primitives, estate jewelry, and collectible coins, alongside the general run of smaller collectibles that fill out a well-stocked multi-floor shop. The range is intentionally wide rather than specialized, since Roth’s stated goal is giving visitors of different ages and backgrounds something that sparks a specific memory rather than curating toward one narrow category of collector.
The shop has built a genuine local following in a relatively short time, reflected in a Facebook page that has drawn more than 840 likes since opening, and it has worked to establish itself as a community fixture rather than purely a retail stop. In late November 2023, just over a month after opening, Nonna’s Antiques hosted a holiday event benefiting the Rock Forge Food Pantry, inviting the community in for hot chocolate and photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus seated in an antique sleigh believed to be roughly eighty years old, while shoppers who donated non-perishable food items were entered into a raffle for a fifty-dollar gift certificate. Roth explained the event as a way to introduce the new business to the neighborhood by giving back rather than simply advertising, a framing that has stuck with the shop’s identity in the years since.
Nonna’s Antiques keeps a schedule built around steady weekly traffic: open Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., giving shoppers six days a week to browse the two floors of furniture, glassware, and small collectibles. The shop can be reached at 304-731-3100 for anyone checking hours before a trip, particularly around holidays when hours can shift. Its position just off I-68 exit 4 makes it a practical stop for travelers passing through Morgantown on the interstate as well as for local collectors making a regular circuit of the area’s antique shops. In short, Nonna’s Antiques is a two-floor, community-minded antique shop in Morgantown’s Sabraton neighborhood, opened by longtime local businesswoman Debbie Roth in 2023, where nostalgic finds like Fiesta glassware, console radios, and vintage lunch boxes turn a quick stop off I-68 into an exercise in genuine memory.
