The Old 'Pike

Tallmadge Ave sits on the old Lancaster Pike, the road that carried people and goods between Philadelphia and Lancaster country since 1795, long before anyone called this the Main Line.

It runs through towns that never needed to announce their taste: houses built to be handed down, furniture built to outlast the household, a stretch of Pennsylvania where quality was never a claim being made, just a standard being kept.

Everything we find, we find somewhere along this road. That's not a marketing story. It's where we happen to be.

Along the Road

  • Wayne — where the shop stands
  • Exton — old crossroads, still trading
  • Downingtown — mill town, iron and grain
  • Coatesville — steel country, workshops and yards
  • Gap — a tavern stop, the halfway mark
  • Intercourse — the antiques trade runs deep here
  • Leacock — quiet farms, quiet furniture
  • Lancaster — the county seat, estate sales
  • Adamstown — the end of the road, and the biggest market of all