Stinardo Store

The two-story store building at 4272 Route 21 South predates the Meeting Hall next door and is among Cheshire's oldest commercial buildings. Probably built before 1870, it was the home of one of Cheshire's early businesses, S.R. Doolittle's Boots and Shoes. The pre-1898 image shows multiple product lines - men’s hats. barbed wire, and hardware being sold alongside the footwear. The Mallory family ran a general store including gasoline sales at the property from the 1920s into the 1950s, operating under the Red and White and then the Leadway chains. The Stinardo family took over from the Mallorys, and in the 1970s this was the original home of the Company Store. Since then a host of small businesses have operated out of this property - gift shop, antiques, a liquor store, a meat market, and others.