• Sign up for free email newsletter
  • Advertise
  • Donate to support our work
  • Events calendar
  • About Us
DAF
 
Pinnacle, Elaine Bannigan
 
Wellesley Hills Dental

The Swellesley Report

Since 2005: More than you really want to know about Wellesley, Mass.

  • Restaurants, sponsored by black & blue
  • Camps, sponsored by NEOC
  • Wellesley Square
  • Private Schools, sponsored by Prepped and Polished
  • Public Schools, sponsored by Sexton
  • Preschools, sponsored by Longfellow, Wellesley
  • School news
  • Kid stuff
  • Top 10 things to do
  • Business news
  • Worship
  • Letters to the editor
  • Guidelines for letters to the editor
  • Live gov’t meetings
  • Sports schedules & results
  • Deland, Gibson’s Athlete of the Week
  • Deaths
  • Housing
  • Medical providers—sponsored by FIXT Dental
 

Top Stories

Wellesley imagines what North 40 can do for community going forward
Maugus Cafe reopening; plans for dinner service
Single-family home sales

Advertisements

Needham Bank, Wellesley
FIXT
Down Under, Wellesley

Public Notice

early voting october 2026
 

Wellesley Gift Shop closing, Wellesley Toy Shop moving into that space

November 27, 2015 by Bob Brown

wellesley gift shop closingThe Great Wellesley Toy Store Shake-up of 2015 continues: Swellesley reader NC shared photos Friday AM of signs showing that the Wellesley Gift Shop at 59 Central St., is closing while its neighboring/interconnected Wellesley Toy Shop is relocating into the space. The shops are owned by the same family.

This comes on the heels of LittleBits Toys in Wellesley Hills closing and Magic Beans in Linden Square sending out a plea to patrons to shop there because of recent slow sales.

The end of the year always seems to bring business turnover in town. City Sports is among the other Wellesley businesses on the outs.wellesley gift shop closing

 

image_print

Filed Under: Business

Comments

  1. Lisa says

    December 30, 2015 at 1:35 am

    The Wellesley Toy store is not expanding, Wellesley Gift Shop is closing and the Toy store is moving into the space currently occupied by the Gift Shop. Another store will be opening in February or March where the Toy store was located.

    • bbrown says

      January 1, 2016 at 11:19 am

      Thank you for clarifying this

     

Advertisements

black & blue, Wellesley
Olive Tree Medical, Wellesley
Haskins Automotive, Wellesley
MIT Museum, Cambridge

Tip us off…

Please send tips, photos, ideas to theswellesleyreport@gmail.com

Please support your local online news source with a tax-deductible donation by scanning the QR code or by clicking on it.

QR Code

Advertisements

Wellesley Square Merchants
The Village Bank, Wellesley
Wellesley, Jesamondo
Fay School, Southborough
Sexton test prep, Wellesley
Wellesley Theatre Project
Prepped and Polished
Perdocere, Wellesley
Wellesley HIlls Dental
Admit Fit, Wellesley
entering-swellesley-1
  • Bluesky
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Subscribe to our free weekday email newsletter

* indicates required

Most Read Posts

  • Wellesley Halloween happenings—2026 edition
  • Friday is letters-to-the-editor day
  • Indigenous Peoples Day 2026 Wellesley—what’s open and closed, nearby events
  • Wellesley Service League Men’s Group Speaker Series to welcome Social Entrepreneur
  • Wellesley imagines what North 40 can do for community going forward

Click on Entering Natick sign to read our Natick Report

Entering Natick road sign

Recent Comments

  • Concerned Resident on Wellesley imagines what North 40 can do for community going forward
  • Ann Gagliano on Wellesley artist mashes up ‘Birth of Venus’ & Halloween
  • Select Board Should Listen (to some music) on Wellesley imagines what North 40 can do for community going forward
  • How is this affordable? on Wellesley All Board Meeting brings who’s who of town leaders together to look ahead
  • Gwen Baker on Wellesley School Committee extends superintendent’s contract, refines AC funding request

Upcoming Events

Oct 12
All day

Indigenous Peoples Day

Oct 12
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Learn to Play Rummikub

Oct 12
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Wellesley Choral Society rehearsals

Oct 14
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Wellesley Square Improvement Project public meeting

Oct 15
10:30 am - 1:30 pm

Friends of the Wellesley Council on Aging present Health & Wellness Fair

View Calendar

Links we like

  • Danny's Place
  • Great Runs
  • Tech-Tamer
  • Universal Hub
  • Wellesley Sports Discussion Facebook Group

© 2026 The Swellesley Report
Site by Tech-Tamer · Login