Mary’s Ace Hardware

Specialties

Mary’s Ace Hardware Given Two Top Ace Store Awards — 2014

You have really got to see Mary’s Ace Hardware… the New Orlean’s Quarter Hardware store galore. Opened in 2011, the unique store has garnered two top awards this year from ACE:

1) One of the top four «Coolest Ace Stores» in the U.S. —in part due to the incredible top of the line housewares department on the second story of this fabulously restored historic building in the French Quarter.

2) One of the «Top 100 Stores» out of 4,200 domestic stores— due to the ever increasing number of customers who just can’t get enough of this place.

Mary’s Ace Hardware now carries a complete line of art supply’s.

Mary’s Ace Hardware & Kitchen/​Bath has all your Hardware and paint needs along with an upstairs Kitchen & Bath store. We offer Key cutting, Glass & Restoration Glass cutting, computerized color paint matching, Carpet Cleaning Rentals. We Feature Brands such as Benjamin Moore, Breville, Craftsman Tools, DeWalt Tools, Dyson, Kitchen Aid, Le Creuset, Miele, Restoration Glass, Viking, Wustof Knives.

History

Established in 1982.

On July 4,1982 Tom Wood opened a hardware store in the French Quarter at 908 Bourbon St. He wanted the store to be an Ace franchise but the location was too close to United Hardware on Elysian Fields, so True Value it was. After many successful years Tom invited his sister Connie, her husband and their three sons to run the store, giving them a 75% share. Tom wanted to move the store to Rampart St. and make it the Ace franchise he always wanted; not agreeing with the decision Connie and her husband abandoned the business. The name, Tom’s favorite haunt in Houston was a biker bar named Mary’s, when he opened the store Mary’s was the only name that worked and the Windmill? When the store opened on Bourbon, Tom put ladders/​trash cans on the sidewalk. The Vieux Carre Commission would make him bring them back in, so he started putting out the windmill because it was easy to pull back in when they came by, until finally they quit pestering him. Welcome to Mary’s Ace Hardware & Kitchen/​Bath!

Meet the Manager

David B.

Manager

David Blazak born and raised in «Mary“land, and then relocated to New York for the next 20 years. Finally having enough with the cold weathers David escaped to the Big Easy in June of 2000, were he took a job with William Sonoma. Because of David’s talents and dedication he was promoted to Manager even before his two year anniversary with the company. He was with William Sonoma until they closed their New Orleans location in 2010, he then joined Wood Enterprises. Once again his expertise and knowledge was quickly recognized and he was named General Manager of Mary’s Ace Hardware & Kitchen/​bath.