View of Hopedale Pond from the Little Red Shop Museum’s gallery  area.

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E-mail: curator@littleredshopmuseum.org

The Little Red Shop building itself is a precious Hopedale artifact.  Today, this oldest industrial building in Hopedale sits majestically along the banks of the Hopedale Pond (Mill River). But the building has a nomadic past.  It first began as the second story of a larger building on the south side of Hopedale Pond, within the confines of the Draper Corporation complex. At some point, it was separated from its lower level and used as a stand-alone building on the western side of the Mill River. Eventually, it was moved out of the complex to the corner of Freedom and Lake Streets. And finally, it was once again dismantled into two sections and moved to what is hoped to be its final resting spot on the eastern shore of the Pond on Hopedale Street in the 1950s.

Even the spectacular cupola, now an iconic symbol of the Little Red Shop Museum, was not original to the building. In early photographs of the Draper complex, what appears to be the Red Shop’s cupola sits atop another building, possibly the old Hopedale chapel building. It is possible the cupola was removed when the former chapel was converted into a single-family home.

 

Preserving Our History Together

About the Little Red Shop

Left, the Little Red Shop Museum front view; above, partial front view with iconic cupola.

Preserving Our History Together