O'Gara & Wilson, Ltd. Antiquarian Booksellers

This past June, Chicago's oldest book store closed it's doors in Hyde Park.  O'Gara and Wilson, Ltd. Antiquarian Booksellers had been a fixture in the University of Chicago neighborhood for over a hundred years.  Saul Bellow called it "the best bookstore in America".  Happily, those doors reopened in Chesterton, IN not long afterwards.  You'll find the Wilsons and their books at 223 Broadway in Chesterton.

Now the windows reflect trees and flowers and a slower-paced community.

For our September day together,

Diana, Jane and I decided to start at 

O'Gara and Wilson's.

Indeed!

Old wooden library ladders are 

strategically placed among the stacks.
Books--old, older and rare--can be found there.

Chairs are provided, too.

There are several "nooks" for

perusing or visiting.

A charming vignette.

One of the bookend "readers" has fallen asleep.

That happens to me often!

What readers have used this chair through the years?

The building seemed to have been waiting 

for these booksellers all along.

When you lead a book lover to a book store,

they will buy.

We each left with a bag of books.