Bibelot, the homegrown bookstore chain that became a neighborhood hangout and forum for local authors, is shutting its doors nearly six years after it emerged on a retail scene dominated by bigger ...

Creditors of the bankrupt Bibelot bookstore chain are trying to recoup more than $25 million from the retailer’s former owners, Elizabeth and Brian Weese. In recent days, the case took yet another ...

Two Bibelot shops that were slated to close — one on Grand Avenue in St. Paul and the Linden Hills location in Minneapolis — will remain open after all. Those stores are being taken over by veterans ...

A going-out-of-business sale brings out the vulture in all of us, even if we happen to love the poor, moribund business in question. Case in point: the Bibelot bookstore at Woodholme. That Bibelot was ...

Like many folks in her business, Roxana (Roxy) Freese maintains that her iconic collection of four Bibelot stores is more than a string of gift shops. The only trouble is, she has difficulty coming up ...

One of the Twin Cities’ most enduring retail institutions, Bibelot Shops, will live on after founder Roxana Freese’s retirement. GoodThings, another long-running, woman-founded local neighborhood ...

In 1966, Roxy Freese opened her first Bibelot shop in a small room on Como Avenue in St. Anthony Park in St. Paul. At the time, she was in crisis and needed something to support her children. The fine ...

The owner of Bibelot, a shop that many Minnesotans will miss, is retiring along with her four stores. Bibelot has been a go-to gift shop to many Minnesotans since its inception in 1966. The owner Roxy ...

The (storied) history: Bibelot was a Twin Cities institution. For 52 years, owner Roxy Freese ran the gift and women's apparel boutiques, which ultimately expanded to four locations. When she retired ...