Rowlett Hardware is a family-owned business run by Rodney and Paula Rowlett. It began in August of 2000 with a single store in Rio Vista, opened to give people south of Cleburne a real hardware source instead of a drive to a big box store. The idea was the old general store, where you could get everything you needed from someone who knew what you were doing with it. That has not changed across four stores.
The Cleburne store at 1460 West Henderson Street opened in June of 2008 and is the largest of the four. Along with every hardware department it houses the Kitchen Place gourmet kitchen shop, the Fudge Shoppe, bridal registry, glass cutting, key and transponder key cutting, screen rebuilding, propane cylinder filling and a Stihl certified service and repair center.
The Rio Vista store at 811 North Highway 174 is the original, and still stocks fasteners, tools, electrical, fencing, paint, concrete and precast concrete steps, keys, pocket knives, LiT coolers and propane filling.
The Godley store at 201 South Main Street trades as Rowlett’s Corner Post. Rodney and Paula bought it in September of 2010 and renamed it. It carries a full hardware inventory plus feed and animal products the other stores do not stock, which makes it the one to know if you farm or keep livestock.
The Grandview store at 102 South Louisiana Street is the newest, opened in April of 2016 in a building the Rowletts bought and remodeled. It is a small building with a great deal in it, including hydraulic hoses and fittings made up while you wait.
Between them the four stores carry over 68,000 products. Propane cylinder filling and key cutting are available at every location, and screens can be dropped off for repair at any store. If one store does not have what you need, another usually does, and we will tell you which one rather than send you away empty handed.
