ORIGINAL CALLAHAN STORE—John Callahan, founder of Callahan’s Norwood Furniture Company, shown In the doorway of the original store situated on Washington Street near what is now the town square. The time was around 1900.

Callahan’s Norwood Furniture Company has doubled the size of their street floor with the addition of an all-new Colonial Shop. The store now occupies the entire frontage next to the old Guild Theatre which will be occupied soon by the Union Savings Bank.

Over 5,000 square feet of space has been completely renovated and stocked with Colonial furniture from Ethan Allen of Vermont, Shaw of Charlotte, Cushman, Bucks County cherry, Hitchcock Chairs and a host of other names that are familiar to the pages of the leading home and fashion magazines.

Callahan’s Norwood Furniture Company is a family business still owned and operated by the same family since 1896 and is the largest furniture store between Boston and Providence. The spaciousness of the store’s in-terior was always obscured by the fact that the store front only showed part of the space occupied.

The new front with its separate entrance actually shows the new home fashions more dramatically Callahan’s has long had a selling floor on the 2nd floor of the new addition Open Mouse will he featured by door prizes as well as gifts while quantities last beginning Thursday morning October 31 and ending Saturday at 5.30 p.m The I store will be open Thursday and Friday evenings until 9 pm.

(All articles originally published in the Norwood Messenger)

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