Wheaton Art Center

Located in Millville, NJ is the historic Wheaton Arts Center.  The Center is located at 1100 Village Drive.  Since, it is located in a wooded area and is advertised as family friendly people come visit the active glass-making factory where you can watch glass-blowing demonstrations.  To walk around the area is free, but it is recommended to spend the 10 dollars fee to see the glass blowing and the museum.  The shops are not plentiful but each has its own uniqueness.

The Sweet Shop welcomes you to the Center.  Here you order at a window and chose selections (s) from a menu written on a chalkboard.

The General Store captures a little nostalgia.  Years ago my father had a sweet shop called "Sailor Jack's Sweet Shoppe" in a community nearby.  It was a time when ten cents bought a child's dream of a full bag of chocolate and lots of other goodies.  Let's take a look at some of the fascinating things inside the General Store.

 

 

Thank you for visiting the General Store with me.  One of the memorable attractions was the playing piano.  My friend put a quarter in to start the piano's operation and holiday music filled the room.

 

Our next stop was a shop filled with  decorated Christmas trees, beautiful ornaments, and treasures to last a lifetime.  The ladies who operated the shop were pleasant and enjoyable to talk to.

 

.Hand crafted scarves and other handmade items were for sale.

The beautiful works of art featuring, metal, stone, and fabulous glass objects was overwhelming.  Every item was for sale, but some works of glass had prices in the thousands of dollars.

The wood carving looked somewhat tired, perhaps like us.

Before we left we had to take one more look in the window of the General Store.  Look carefully and you will see my friend's refelection.