Stevens Hardware In Downtown Annapolis Closing After 53 Years

While working the cash register, Marge Stevens’ eyes reddened with tears Wednesday as the 84-year-old shop owner told customers the news.

After 53 years of doing business beside Annapolis’ harbor, Stevens Hardware will close at the end of this month, after years of sagging sales.

Some residents say shuttering the business will end an era for downtown. The district has shifted from a place people went to shop for groceries, bait and household staples to one where they dine on surf and turf and buy crab-embellished shot glasses.

Since 1870, three families have continuously operated a hardware store at the Stevens building on the corner of Dock and Randall streets.
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