Mark and Audrey Stewart run My Antique Store out of a 6,000 square foot building at 1007 W. Delmar Avenue in Godfrey, Illinois, a Madison County village just north of Alton along the Mississippi River bluffs and only a short drive from downtown St. Louis across the river. The couple describes their own shop as a decorator’s dream, and the description holds up once you walk the floor: this is a space built around European and American glass and china, with named makers including Haviland, Wedgwood, and Waterford sitting alongside American art pottery from Roseville and Hull, rather than a generic assortment of unlabeled secondhand goods.
Glass collectors in particular will find a deep well here, since the shop carries vintage glassware from the 1950s and 1960s alongside depression glass, carnival glass, and other elegant glass patterns that collectors specifically hunt for by pattern name and color. That focus on glass and china sets My Antique Store apart from a general antique mall that spreads its floor space evenly across furniture, tools, and ephemera; here, the emphasis stays on tableware, decorative glass, and pottery, with furniture spanning the 1800s through more modern eras filling in the rest of the space alongside costume jewelry and other smaller collectibles.
Because the Stewarts run the shop directly rather than renting booths out to a rotating cast of independent dealers, the inventory reflects their own eye for what belongs on the shelves, and it changes on a near-daily basis as new pieces come in. The shop keeps a want list for customers hunting a specific pattern, maker, or piece that is not currently in stock, and actively buys inventory from the surrounding area, which means a serious collector working on completing a set has a real avenue for tracking down exactly what they need rather than hoping to stumble across it by chance. That combination of active buying and a standing want list is a meaningful differentiator from shops that only sell whatever happens to arrive through estate liquidators.
The shop has weathered real history at its Delmar Avenue location, having sustained significant damage back in 2009 and rebuilt from it, a detail the Stewarts have documented on their own site as part of the store’s story. For anyone visiting today, the shop is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., a schedule worth noting since it differs from the seven-day hours common at larger antique malls in the area.
Shoppers who cannot make the trip to Godfrey in person are not entirely out of luck, since the Stewarts maintain an active eBay presence under the username myantiquestore and keep an online inventory catalog for browsing remotely, giving out-of-town collectors a way to shop the same glass, china, and pottery selection without the drive. That online option has become increasingly common among specialty antique dealers looking to reach collectors well beyond their own metro area, and it fits naturally with a shop whose specialty, glass and china patterns, is exactly the kind of category collectors search for by name online.
For collectors searching the greater St. Louis and Metro East region for a specialty source of European and American glass, china, and art pottery, My Antique Store in Godfrey, Illinois has spent years building a reputation as a decorator’s dream stocked with named makers like Haviland, Wedgwood, Waterford, Roseville, and Hull, run directly by owners Mark and Audrey Stewart out of their 6,000 square foot Delmar Avenue building.
