The Bloomington Antique Mall

HISTORY 

The Antique Mall is not just a business, it's a part of Bloomington's history. The Mall is one of Bloomington's historic landmarks and goes back to the 1900s when it was a wholesale grocer. The store was used to provide food to the John R. Figg building along with many other businesses. The store was also adjacent to the Monon Railroad which is currently the B-line. They would use the railroad to transfer food across states. 

As you can tell there is a lot of history in the antique mall, mainly because it is on the West Side Historic District, so there are many places around it that are also historic landmarks. Another of the landmarks are the Shower Brother City hall which was the Showers Brothers Furniture around 1960s. 

In the 1980-1990 there were a lot of major renovations happening around Bloomington and one of those renovations was the Antique Mall. At this point the building had fallen into disrepair and it stayed like this for 67 more years. In 1987 the store was sold to CFC properties and within a year they renovated the warehouse to become an antique mall. But the Antique Mall was not the only major renovation that CFC did in Bloomington. A few years after CFC bought the wholesale grocer they worked with a couple other companies to renovate the Showers Brothers Furniture into a city hall. Both of the buildings are considered important landmarks to Bloomington. 

The Antique Mall started out strong and had lots of customers so it was a sad day when the Mall had to close. In 2006 they had announced they were going to have to close. After The Antique Mall was closed for a few years CFC sold the property in 2010 to Greg and Denise Pence who are the current owners.  Now the Mall has been open for 37 years and is a major part of Bloomington history and community.