Five of Our Favorite Southern Antiquing Towns Storied: Southern destinations, districts, and markets for treasure hunters of every stripe
Five of Our Favorite Southern Antiquing Towns
Storied Southern destinations, districts, and markets for treasure hunters of every stripe
The Napiers’ Coastal Catnip
Along Mobile Bay in Alabama
“Charles Phillips Antiques in Theodore, Alabama, is the greatest European architectural salvage resource we have in the South,” says Erin Napier, who along with her husband, Ben, cohosts HGTV’s Home Town. “I’ve especially loved buying the French bleached pine dressers for our homes over the years, but you never know what you’ll find in their ephemera stash.” Doors, shutters, architectural iron, and loads of European furniture fill eight giant warehouses across sixty acres. “A lot of people come here and make a whole weekend of it, looking through everything and staying in Fairhope or on Dauphin Island,” says Audrey Phillips Lapeyrouse, whose parents opened Charles Phillips fifty years ago. When the Phillips family themselves need a light fixture or other finishing touch on a home project, they swing by the Fairhope shop Crown & Colony Antiques.
The Phillips family pictured with Ben and Erin Napier during one of their memorable filming visits to the Shop.
As seen in Garden & Gun October/November 2025 issue
Article: Five of Our Favorite Southern Antiquing Towns Storied: Southern destinations, districts, and markets for treasure hunters of every stripe.
