Tadpole: A Modern Mom-and-Pop Shop on Clarendon Street

Boston, MA – If your image of a mom-and-pop shop doesn’t quite match Tadpole, then you and David Hauck are of the same mind.

Mr. Hauck is half of the husband-and-wife team that owns the “modern children’s store” on Clarendon Street. But he’s not exactly the little old guy manning the register, and his business is no crowded hole in the wall.

Yet as longtime transplants to Boston who feel grounded in a neighborhood they love, and have built both successful work and home lives around it, this mom and pop – Storey Hieronymus Hauck and David Hauck – have created a version of the American dream here, right in the South End.