And when we came upon that opportunity, we being some members of the South Williamstown Community Association who were approached with this, we formed our own organization and gathered together the money and went ahead and bought it. He agreed very generously to sell it to us separately. So, we came upon an opportunity to buy the store separately from the Green River package, which initially Frank Lewis, the previous owner, had packaged them all together - the whole Green River property with the store. And but it’s always what it’s always been is a place for the community to gather and a place for people to get what they need, and that’s what people have really missed.
It was a gas station in, I believe, the 50s. The current building was built kind of around the original tavern, and the upstairs was actually used for town meetings in the 1830s. It began as a tavern in 1767 and then gradually evolved into a kind of general store and general store and cafe in the 1830s. Alison, can you give us a history of the store? Of the Five Corners - at least what you know of it.Īlison Case: Well, just a quick history before it shut down during COVID, it was one of the oldest continuously operating businesses in the country. When it shut down during the pandemic, I was, along with a lot of people crushed, but I’m happy to see that there is this new life being breathed into it.
The Store at Five Corners is one of my favorite hangouts, my very favorite place to have a business meeting in the little sunroom off to the side and was one of my favorite places to get baked treats and so forth. The Greylock Glass: And with me on the line is Alison Case representing the Store at Five Corners Stewardship Association, Inc. Parties interested in applying for the chance to take over operations at the Store at Five Corners and do so right here. SAFCSA is a new non-profit organization formed in the fall of 2021 to purchase and maintain the Store, and has now closed on the sale of this iconic property. On January 27th, 2022, the Store at Five Corners Stewardship Association (SAFCSA) finalized its purchase of the historic Store at Five Corners, at the intersection of Routes 7 and 43 in Williamstown.
The Store at Five Corners is expected to reopen in late Spring of 2022 if the right operator can be found to reopen the location as a business whose details are, as yet, undecided photo courtesy The Store at Five Corners, via Facebook.
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