A Purcellville landmark, the family-run hardware store has survived two World Wars and still retains the good, old-fashioned sense of friendly service which has “turned customers into acolytes.” As recently highlighted in The Washington Post’s Loudoun Extra, Nichols Hardware will soon be memorialized in a documentary film which will follow the store for a year, a marvel in this “era of big-box chains,” to quote The Washington Post:

“We’ve lived long enough in Loudoun County to know there’s nothing like Nichols,” said Sarah Huntington, a portrait photographer and chief executive of Lincoln Studios, the three-person company making the half-hour film “Nichols: The Last Hardware Store.” “We feel we need to document it,” Huntington said. “This kind of thing might not be there in a few years.”

“Sarah describes it as a ballet,” said Drew Babb, the film’s writer. “The way the men move, the way they take you around and they wait on you.”

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