Marcia Trementozzi and her daughter, Lindsay, scoured the color-dotted aisles of Windsor Button for the perfect shade of blue yarn earlier this week, knowing it might be their final visit to the 77-year-old Downtown Crossing store.
The shop at 35 Temple Place is closing once the inventory is sold off at discounted prices, according to its owners. As the news of Windsor Button’s demise has spread, knitters and crafters from across the region — many of them decades-long customers — have been coming to stock up on materials and mourn the loss of one of the last independent yarn and crafts stores in New England.
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I'mheartbroken. Spent many a day in the Burlington mall location as a teenager when I sewed and also at the Chauncy st store.a new England institution!
Downtown Crossing's eradication is nearing completion.
People wouldn't have to travel to find "charming" if the local real estate magnates and planners stopped to appreciate places like this. Why go downtown at all if the space is given over to progress. We have all the sterility we need in Wrentham.
How, how sad - it is the only yarn shop in downtown Boston.
The buttons can't be replaced. There is no place else that even come close to their selection, not even on the internet.
Actually there is another place with buttons stored much like those at Windsor Button. It's called the Button Box. Yes it's a quilt shop, but they do have a marvelous button wall. Off Route 9 W in Wellesley, MA.
I spent many a Saturday with my grandmother - immigrant stitcher in a Boston shop - visiting this store. Always amazed by the collection. The legacy? A 5lb coffee can fullof buttons "just in case".. Handed down two generations...
Thank You Windsor Button.