School House Treasures

Inside a former schoolhouse on State Highway 30 in Broadalbin, New York, more than fifty individual dealers fill two full floors with what School House Treasures calls, in its own words, endless finds, turning a building that once rang with school bells into one of Fulton County’s larger antique and vintage marketplaces. Owner Marianne Edwards runs the shop as a dealer cooperative, meaning each booth and case is stocked and priced by its own independent vendor, so the inventory spans a wide range rather than a single owner’s curated taste: antique furniture, vintage clothing, Pyrex and Jadeite kitchenware, vintage toys, sports cards and memorabilia, estate jewelry, books, primitive farmhouse pieces, and repurposed and upcycled decor all share space across the two stories. That range is part of the draw for regular customers from around the Capital Region, since the shop sits within about forty five minutes of Albany and pulls both local Fulton County shoppers and weekend day-trippers willing to make the drive up Route 30 into the edge of the southern Adirondacks. Hours vary by season, so the shop encourages calling ahead at 518-883-4924 before making a special trip, a common and sensible practice for a business whose staffing and open days can shift with the time of year. The shop’s own tagline, the joy is in the hunt, captures how the space is meant to be shopped: not as a single showroom with one point of view, but as a rotating collection of fifty-plus micro-shops under one roof, where the specific mix of Pyrex patterns, vintage toys, or estate jewelry pieces on the floor changes as individual dealers restock and rotate their booths. School House Treasures has built a strong local reputation for that variety, reflected in a 4.7 out of 5 star rating across more than one hundred reviews, a level of consistent local goodwill that is unusual for a business built on so many independently run booths rather than a single centralized buying operation. Beyond retail shopping, the mall welcomes group visits and school field trips with advance notice, an unusual offering for an antique mall that speaks to its literal schoolhouse setting, letting visiting groups experience the building’s original architecture alongside its current life as a marketplace. The business also accepts applications from prospective dealers looking for booth space, giving it room to keep expanding its roster and refreshing its inventory mix over time rather than settling into a fixed set of vendors. For anyone touring Fulton County’s antiquing circuit, the combination of scale, a historic building, and genuine local reputation makes School House Treasures a natural stop alongside Broadalbin’s other antique businesses, offering enough floor space and enough independent dealers that a single visit rarely covers everything on offer. School House Treasures is a fifty-plus-dealer, two-floor antique and vintage marketplace housed in a converted schoolhouse in Broadalbin, New York, drawing shoppers from across the Capital Region for furniture, kitchenware, toys, jewelry, and collectibles.