This Evansville Treasure-Hunting Spot Is Getting a Fascinating New Home

I love a good thrift or vintage store. Give me a building full of old, weird, one-of-a-kind things to dig through, and I can entertain myself for hours.

But if you've never been to Salvage Candy, this isn't exactly your traditional thrift or vintage store.

Salvage Candy specializes in architectural salvage, vintage pieces, and the wonderfully unusual things that have survived long enough to deserve another life.

And now the Evansville business is getting a new life of its own.

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Salvage Candy Is Leaving South Weinbach Avenue

Since first opening its doors over a decade ago, Salvage Candy has called 3500 South Weinbach Avenue home. It's where shoppers have hunted through old doors and windows, found unique furniture and architectural pieces, and pieces of Evansville history.

The folks at Salvage Candy tell me the location hasn't always been ideal. Flooding has caused problems at the property in the past, and construction surrounding the new I-69 Ohio River Crossing has made reaching that area even more complicated.

So, Salvage Candy is trading its leased South Weinbach location for a building of its own, and this new building? It has stories.

Salvage Candy

From a Historic Funeral Home to Architectural Salvage

Located at 114 West Illinois Street, the new home of Salvage Candy served as a mortuary and funeral home to the Evansville community for more than 100 years.

According to Historic Evansville, the building was built in 1895 and served the city of Evansville until the state of Indiana forced its closure in 1979 for reportedly operating without a licensed funeral director.

There's something incredibly fitting about a business dedicated to preserving pieces of the past moving into a historic Evansville building rather than a shiny new storefront.

If you love old houses, vintage things, local history, or the thrill of walking into a store with absolutely no idea what you're going to find, this is one to put on your list.

They tell me they plan to open September 19, and I have a feeling I'm going to need to go investigate personally.

For journalism.

Obviously.