This shop has become a well-loved part of the square it's named for, a place where customers stop in to chat, bring friends, and find a gift for pretty much anyone.
Davis Squared plays its cards right
From pipes to pastilles, tarot to tiddlywinks, Leavitt & Peirce feels like shopping back in time
Leavitt & Peirce has been in business in the same Harvard Square location since 1883, and it’s not hard to imagine it's still that year when you step inside.
WardMaps is just the ticket for transit fans, but its goods take customers far beyond the borders of the MBTA
If you love maps, if you love trains, if you love the T, you’ll love WardMaps, and you just might feel like you’re in paradise when you visit. But there's more.
Glass Ripples has colorful vibes and home goods in an easy-to-miss nook near Davis Square
A shop filled with colorful flatware, matchbooks, artworks, glassware, necklaces and much more prepared to expand to Brookline from a nook at the edge of Cambridge.
MIT Museum Store makes its missions about play and fun, with just enough school-branded merch
MIT's museum store is about science and the school without being boring or overly academic, and is so successful in helping fund the museum that it may expand.
Tiny Turns Paperie grew into a browser’s paradise of puzzles, toys and games, mugs, magnets and hourglasses
Stationery was the focus of the store as it opened, and it remains serious about writing, but Tiny Turns grew and found room to add gifts and a miscellany of small items.
Henry Bear’s Park is stuffed with games, books and toys (many of them also stuffed)
A column devoted to the many great independent shops of Somerville and Cambridge visits Henry Bear’s Park, a toy store with roots back to 1976.