342 W Boylston St, West Boylston, MA

Original Grocery Tenant: Meadowbrook IGA
Address: 342 West Boylston St, West Boylston, MA

Opened: between 1961 and 1964

Closed: after 1989

Later Tenants: Stop & Shop (?) > subdivided

Photographed: November 8, 2020

Welcome to West Boylston! Don't forget that we're now north of Worcester again, just a mile from the Market 32 and Stop & Shop in the Greendale section. This store of roughly 18,000 square feet was constructed in the early 1960s as the Meadowbrook IGA, which closed around the 1990s. I believe Stop & Shop also briefly set up shop here, later moving to the West Boylston Street location in the late 90s. I seem to recall seeing a 1990s map of West Boylston that had a Stop & Shop in this location, but I can't find any evidence to confirm that so I might be misremembering.

The front half of the store became a Dollar General (since closed) with a gym in the back half. This sign out by the street, however, seems to date back to the IGA days...

I wouldn't be surprised if the oval sign at the top originally held the distinctive red IGA oval logo. These days, West Boylston doesn't have any supermarkets, but there is a small grocer just north of here that we'll see tomorrow!