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Welcome to A Primitive Place!

"Where Prim Friends Gather"

A Primitive Place is an in-print magazine for those who value early American style, antiques, and the history behind them.

Our Publications

We publish two types of magazines each year:

Quarterly Subscription (4 Issues)

This is what your subscription covers. Our subscription includes four seasonal magazines per year:

  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Fall
  • Christmas

What You’ll Find Inside Subscription Issues

  • 104 pages of curated homes and historical content
  • 5 Home Tours —We don’t stage homes. Every space is decorated by its owner, offering real examples of how to live with antiques
  • Primitive, colonial, and early American interiors - Featuring homes of all kinds, from historic properties and reproduction saltboxes to farmhouses, Cape Cods, apartments, and townhomes
  • Collector-level antique education — construction, use, and history

Signature Features in Every Subscription Issue

  • What Did It Sell For? — antiques recently sold at auction
  • Antiques: A Thriving Industry — spotlighting entrepreneurs under 40
  • Artisan Spotlight — traditional makers and craftspeople
  • Expert Columns — including David T. Smith, Alex Pifer, Al Grella, and T.C. Waln
  • DIY Projects & Recipes
  • and more!

Special Editions (4 Additional Issues)

In addition to the subscription, we release four separate Special Edition magazines each year. Special Editions are not included in the regular subscription.

These are:

  • Theme-based (Americana, gardens, holiday, etc.)
  • Contain minimal advertising
  • Sold separately. Bundle packs are available to pre-order all upcoming issues for the remaining year

Special Editions Include

  • Exclusive home tours not seen in subscription issues
  • Catch-ups with past homeowners — featuring new spaces and unseen photos
  • Before & after transformations — showing how collections and interiors evolve over time
  • More homes, more variety — giving additional collectors and decorators a chance to be featured
  • Collector-level inspiration — ideas you won’t find in standard issues

Many readers collect both the quarterly issues and special editions, creating a full shelf of content, and often tell us they wish we published even more often.

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The Christmas 2026 Issue will be Released on October 16th

On the cover of our Christmas 2026 issue is the home of Bill and Beverly Mitchell of New Braintree, Massachusetts. Their remarkable home began as the Ditch Meadow School in 1823 and remained a schoolhouse until the early 1900s, when a second floor was added. Today, the historic building is filled with quality early American country and primitive antiques collected by Bill and Beverly over the past twenty years.

Inside this issue, you will also tour four additional homes: a 1910 Pennsylvania farmhouse transformed by Holly and Rick Weirick, an exceptional Southern collection in Alabama, a Texas home devoted to the Pilgrim style, and the Minnesota home of folk artist Michelle Christopherson.

5 Home Tours

Rick and Holly Weirick of Middleburg, Pennsylvania

Bill and Beverly Mitchell of New Braintree, Massachusetts

Greg and Sonja Rich of Decatur, AlabamaPat Evans of Magnolia, Texas

Randy and Michelle Christopherson of Brainerd, Minnesota

This Christmas issue is packed with antique education, Christmas history, decorating ideas, and collecting stories, including:

Fire, Froth, and Fellowship in Early Taverns

Kim Waln introduces the flip dog, also called a toddy rod, loggerhead, or mulling rod.

Not Your Ordinary Tree Skirt

Discover twelve unexpected antiques to use beneath or around the Christmas tree.

From Old World Glass to American Shine

Follow the Christmas ornament from the glassblowing workshops of Lauscha, Germany, to the American production of Shiny Brite ornaments. Learn how early ornaments were made, why collectors call them “mercury glass,” and how wartime shortages changed their appearance.

From Sleigh to Santa: The Bells of Christmas

Al Grella traces the sleigh bell from a necessary warning device on early snow-covered roads to one of the most recognizable sounds of the Christmas season.

A Beginner’s Guide to Speaking Antiques

Learn the meaning of fundamental collecting terms everyone should know

Holiday Trade Cards That Captured a Nation’s Imagination

T.C. Waln explores how colorful trade cards became a revolutionary form of late-19th-century advertising and helped spread the images of Santa Claus, Christmas trees, and other holiday traditions across the country.

The addition of a Pilgrim-style home also allows us to explore antiques we have not previously discussed in the magazine, including an Elizabethan court cupboard dating to approximately 1530–1540, a Hadley chest, and a William-and-Mary high chest.

You will also find "What Did It Sell For?", The APP Journal, an Artisan Spotlight on Carriage House Lighting, a soldier’s remarkable account of a Christmas night that helped change the course of the American Revolution, Prim Projects, the Christmas Pantry, quick and easy recipes, and so much more!

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