Beloved Midlands antique store Ivy House sets an opening date for new Lexington location
What once was old will soon be new again in Lexington County.
Ivy House, long a popular Elgin antique, vintage and gift store with items from a host of vendors, has set an opening date for a second location. The new store will open June 24 at 4211 Augusta Road in Lexington County. That’s along a busy commercial corridor just east of the intersection of Augusta Road and St. David’s Church Road.
Ivy House announced the opening date of the Lexington shop in a recent post on its Facebook page.
“The registers are working,” the business said in the social media post. “The supply room is stocked. Employees are hired. Lights are up. Floors are swept. BUT the best part: Vendors are gearing up to move in .”
The Augusta Road store will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the June 24 grand opening. Ivy House said in a separate Facebook post there will be more than 65 vendors in the Lexington County antique and vintage shop and that the stock from some of the vendors who have already moved in has been beyond their “wildest expectations.”
The original Ivy House location remains open at 10511 Two Notch Road in Elgin. That storefront northeast of Columbia is “filled and overflowing with treasures,” per a recent social media post.
In a story in The State earlier this year, Ivy House co-owner Ruth Rauch said the business has had so many requests from vendors wanting to sell goods via Ivy House that the time was right to expand.
“The concept behind Ivy House is to provide a platform so that our vendors can be prosperous so that the store can make money so that we can support ourselves and local charities,” Rauch said in the January story.
Some of the local charities that have been supported by the antiques business include include Oliver Gospel, Reconciliation Ministries, PETSinc and Fostering Foster.
