The Little Red Shop Museum (LRSM) is a local government controlled non-profit organization with the mission to preserve and maintain the town’s oldest industrial building, display the town’s artifacts and exhibit the textile industry’s largest loom manufacturer’s products.

It is a primary goal of the LSRM to preserve the cultural and academic form of the history of Hopedale’s Utopian community and Draper Corporation/textile industry for local residents, tourists and school children and to provide a world-class history of Draper Corporation’s products and role in the textile industry.

We will achieve this by operating a facility that boasts being the original Draper building, known as the Little Red Shop, which has been moved three times and preserved for history. 

As a non-profit venture, the LRSM will operate through the support of the town of Hopedale, Friends of Historic Hopedale, our visiting patrons, gift shop, as well as the generous contributions of local businesses, individuals and foundations.