Slacks Antique Mall fills a genuinely unusual building at 460 Main Street in Wellsville, Ohio, a small Ohio River village in Columbiana County: a historic bank constructed in the early 1900s, joined to an equally old International Order of Odd Fellows hall next door, for a combined 20,000 square feet of showroom space. Shoppers can still walk past the original bank vaults, a detail that gives the mall a sense of place most antique stores cannot match, since the same rooms that once held deposit boxes and teller windows now hold booths of glassware, furniture, tools, and collectibles from dozens of individual dealers.
As a multi vendor mall, Slacks operates less like a single retailer and more like a small indoor marketplace: independent sellers rent showrooms, shelving units, wall space, and display cases throughout the old bank and lodge hall, which means the mix of merchandise shifts as often as the vendors themselves restock. That structure rewards repeat visits, since a booth cleared out on one trip may be filled with an entirely different dealer’s finds by the next. The mall is open every day of the week, from 10 in the morning to 5 in the evening, seven days a week, which is a notably generous schedule compared to many small town antique shops that close at least one or two days midweek.
Slacks also runs a service worth knowing about if you are trying to sell rather than buy: eBay at Slacks, a consignment arm built on more than two decades of the owners’ own eBay selling experience. Customers can bring in items and have the mall’s team photograph, list, and manage the online sale on their behalf, a service that saves sellers the work of learning a marketplace platform themselves while still getting their pieces in front of a national audience of collectors. The mall rounds out its offerings with gift cards for shoppers who want to give the experience of browsing rather than a specific object, and it accepts donations to help support the upkeep of a large historic building that requires ongoing maintenance.
The Wellsville location itself matters to the shop’s identity. The village sits along the Ohio River in the eastern part of the state, not far from the Pennsylvania and West Virginia lines, and the mall’s own materials describe the surrounding area as a place that could use more antique stores, a nod to filling a gap in a smaller river town rather than competing with a dense cluster of dealers the way a shopper might find in a bigger city. That local framing, combined with the scale of the building itself, makes Slacks feel like both a destination antique mall and a piece of preserved local history in its own right.
Anyone planning a stop can reach the mall at 330-314-8335 or by email at slacksantiquemall@gmail.com to ask about current vendor offerings or the consignment service before making the trip. Between its converted bank and lodge architecture, seven day open schedule, dozens of independent vendor booths, and its own in house eBay consignment service, Slacks Antique Mall stands out as a full day antiquing stop built inside one of Wellsville, Ohio’s most historic downtown buildings.
