Hill’s True Value Hardware

Very nice people. Helpful but not pushy. Great prices. Nice inventory.

The big box stores like lowes, home depot, and menards have run most hardware stores like hill’s true value out of business. I’m extremely glad that hill’s is still up and running and going strong. They have an excellent selection and there is always someone to help you find what you need. On your next home improvement project I would suggest checking them out before going to one of the big chains who don’t even care about your business.

John from the previous review of Hill’s can rest easy. The tree lined vacant lots he so fondly remembers were lots that once contained wonderful old and somewhat stately homes long lost to fires and other urban blight. The new gentrified homes that seemed so out of place are no longer so – they ARE the neighborhood and have formed a new extension of the academic community.
Beyond that and more to the point, I fully second John’s review of Hill’s True Value Hardware.
It is difficult to fathom how they can have such a wide variety if items in a relatively small building — and anyone you ask can will lead you to the object of your quest immediately. As a 50 year resident, I can think of only a single time that they didn’t have the item I was looking for — a snow roof rake shortly after a blizzard.

Being a (graduate) student at Notre Dame isolates you from the City of South Bend, Indiana. There’s South Bend, where I thankfully lived, and then there’s Notre Dame, which basically has no real regard for the nearby city that its history is so intertwined with. Notre Dame’s only real connection to South Bend now is its gentrification of the Northeast Neighborhood. What used to be tree-​filled empty lots and modest homes are now being bulldozed and replaced by houses that are too large for the neighborhood. For everything else but the Northeast Neighborhood, Notre Dame (and its suburban undergraduates) look the other way. Most ND undergrads spend more of their time in Mishawaka shopping at chain stores than they do in South Bend.
All of this is to say that when I needed to replace a fuse in our quaint little two-​story house on Sorin Street, I automatically tried to think of how to get to Lowe’s in Mishawaka. But then I thought better of it. Wasn’t there a hardware store on that road with 7,023 names that runs under the tollway, and wasn’t it independent? It was, and that’s where I got my fuse.
When my dad visited a few months later, that’s where he got the supplies to fix our toilet. So if you’re in South Bend and need some hardware, check out Hill’s True Value. The people are knowledgeable and friendly, and they’ve got a lot crammed into the little store.