Jerry Gordon spent years as a sound engineer and musician before turning that same attention to detail toward antique lighting, and today his shop, Fun Antiques, operates out of 33 Belmont Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just off the Belmont town line that gives the address its name. The shop has built its identity around a specialty that few general antique dealers offer at the same depth: full lighting repair and vintage lighting restoration, handling everything from a lamp that simply will not turn on to an ornate Victorian chandelier that needs its wiring, sockets, and finish brought back to working order.
That restoration work draws on more than 25 years of hands on experience, and Gordon’s approach favors preserving the original character of a fixture rather than replacing parts wholesale, so a restored piece still reads as the antique it is rather than a modern reproduction wearing an old shell. Because lighting styles and materials shifted so much across different design periods, from gas era fixtures through Art Deco through mid-century, that kind of restoration knowledge has to span far more than one look or one era, and it is the core expertise the shop is built around.
Alongside the lighting work, the sales floor carries a genuinely varied mix: mid-century furniture, musical instruments that likely reflect Gordon’s own background, vintage audio equipment, vinyl records, jewelry, and even the occasional movie prop, giving the shop a browsing experience that goes well beyond lamps and chandeliers. The inventory is described as continuously refreshed with new vintage finds, and the shop also offers custom sourcing for customers hunting a specific item that is not currently on the floor, a service that turns the shop into more of a standing relationship with regular customers than a one-time browse.
The shop has picked up coverage from Improper Bostonian and Boston Magazine, regional publications that regularly steer Boston area shoppers toward smaller specialty businesses worth a special trip, and that kind of local media attention has helped build Fun Antiques a following well beyond its immediate Cambridge neighborhood. The Belmont Street location itself is a relatively recent move, and the shop continues to serve the same base of collectors, designers, and homeowners who need a working antique lamp fixed or want to add a genuinely old fixture to a renovated room, rather than settling for a modern reproduction.
Hours run Tuesday through Saturday from 11 in the morning to 6 in the evening, with a shorter Sunday window from noon to 3, and the shop is closed on Mondays, a schedule that fits comfortably into a Cambridge weekend antiquing route alongside the neighborhood’s other small specialty shops. For anyone in the Boston or Cambridge area sitting on a broken family heirloom lamp or hunting a specific vintage light fixture for a period appropriate renovation, Fun Antiques offers a combination that is hard to find elsewhere in the region: real restoration expertise paired with a rotating stock of mid-century furniture, instruments, audio gear, and smalls. Fun Antiques is a Cambridge, Massachusetts antiques shop on Belmont Street specializing in vintage lighting repair and restoration alongside mid-century furniture, musical instruments, and vinyl records, run by longtime restorer Jerry Gordon.
