The Harvard General Store is located in the town center of Harvard MA which was incorporated in 1732, and remains one of New Englands finest examples of a well preserved town common protected by the National Register of historic locations.

Although this spot on the common has been home to the town store since 1816, the existing building was built in 1896 for Henry Gale and Phillip Dickson. The store was bought 111 years later by Lyn and Adam Horowitz in 2007.

Two eras meet at the General Store in Harvard, circa 1910.

The picture was taken in about 1910 of Mrs. Gertrude Cottle, seated in her car in front of the Harvard General Store. Lyn's family, through Mrs. Eleanor Cottle and later her mother, Mrs Evelyn Hammershaimb, have been associated with Harvard for over 80 years. This is one of the reasons we felt the challenge of the General Store was worth tackling.

We have been renovating and modernizing the store since our purchase and hope, with the required approvals, to open with limited usage at the end of the 1st quarter 2008.