Once a month, the Atlanta Expo Centers on Jonesboro Road transform into one of the largest antique and vintage marketplaces in the Southeast, and that transformation has been happening on a predictable schedule since 1987 thanks to Scott Antique Markets. What began as a single antique show at Atlanta’s old Lakewood Fairgrounds has grown, over nearly four decades, into a recurring event that fills both the North and South buildings of the Atlanta Expo Centers, roughly 361,000 square feet combined, every second weekend of the month with dealers selling everything from formal antique furniture and fine art to vintage clothing, custom furnishings, and specialty interior design pieces.
The scale is part of what distinguishes Scott Antique Markets from a standalone antique shop or a single strip-mall style mall of booths. With two full expo buildings at 3650 and 3850 Jonesboro Road SE in Atlanta given over entirely to vendors for a single weekend each month, shoppers encounter a depth of inventory, and a range of price points and specialties, that a smaller fixed-location shop simply cannot match. That format has made Scott Antique Markets a fixture on the calendar for Atlanta-area collectors, interior designers, and dealers who plan their sourcing trips around the recurring show dates rather than treating antiquing as a spontaneous errand, and it has also drawn interior design professionals looking for one-off statement pieces that are hard to source through conventional retail.
The Atlanta shows are only half of the operation. Scott Antique Markets also runs a companion event at the Ohio Expo Center at the Ohio State Fairgrounds in Columbus, held seasonally from November through March, which lets the same network of dealers and the same collector base follow the market north during the colder months. The business is run out of a home office in Bremen, Ohio, and has kept the two-market structure, Atlanta and Ohio, as its core model for decades rather than expanding into a scattered chain of smaller locations, a choice that has helped it maintain its reputation as a premier, dealer-driven event rather than a generic antique mall brand.
What keeps Scott Antique Markets relevant nearly forty years after its first Atlanta show is the breadth of what shows up on any given weekend. Because the market draws from a large, rotating pool of independent dealers rather than a fixed inventory, the mix changes month to month, covering traditional American and European antiques, mid-century and vintage furniture, art, jewelry, textiles, and architectural and garden pieces alongside more contemporary custom and artisan-made goods. That variety, combined with the sheer physical footprint of the Atlanta Expo Centers, is why interior designers, professional pickers, and casual collectors alike treat a Scott Antique Markets weekend as a full day’s outing rather than a quick stop, arriving early to work through both buildings before the best pieces are gone.
For anyone in the Atlanta area planning ahead, the market runs the second full weekend of every month at the Atlanta Expo Centers on Jonesboro Road, with the winter schedule shifting north to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. Scott Antique Markets is a recurring, dealer-driven antique and vintage show that has filled Atlanta’s Expo Centers with hundreds of vendors every month since 1987, making it one of the Southeast’s largest regular antique marketplaces.
