NEW BUILDINGS AND MAJOR ADDITIONS

DOWNTOWN DEPARTMENT STORES, 1920 TO 1960

Richard Longstreth, compiler

revised 12.1.09

This compendium offers basic data on new buildings for, and major additions to, the over 180 downtown- based department store companies in 59 cities studied for my book, The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960 (Yale University Press, 2010). The contents list the main plants of these businesses, including large, separate buildings that functioned as an integral part of the stores’ retail operations and were located in the same or contiguous blocks. More remote retail annexes, warehouses and service buildings, and parking structures are not included. The listings are chronologically arranged by date of opening. The name of the ownership group/department store corporation to which they belonged during the study period is indicated on the top right side of each entry.

Numerous sources were used in compiling this material. Women’s Wear Daily and local newspapers were especially useful. Where possible, I have included the date of closure as a department store. Site visits were made in most cases, in which case I have included notation of whether the building still stands followed by the date of my last visit in parentheses as the last line in an entry.

Additions and corrections are welcome. Contact me at [email protected].

1920

STIX, BAER & FULLER CO., Washington & Lucas avenues, Sixth & Seventh streets, St. Louis addition announced 1.30.19, opened 11.8.20 Mauran, Russell & Crowell, architects 11 stories + basement, $1,000,000 closed 2001 extant (9.00)

FORBES & WALLACE, Main, Pynchon & Vernon streets, Springfield, Massachusetts addition announced 12.16.19, opened ca. 12.20 Kirkham & Parlett, architects 8 stories + basement, 40,000 square feet no longer standing (7.98)

1921

A. I. NAMM & SON, Livingston Street & Elm Place, Brooklyn addition announced 9.2.19, opened 2.28.21

1 6 stories + basement, 240,000 square feet closed 1957 extant (7.02)

BOSTON STORE, Sycamore, Grand & Fourth streets, Milwaukee addition announced 11.3.19, opened 4.1.21 8 stories + basement, 150,000 square feet, @ $900,000 extant (9.99)

HARRIS-HAHLO CO., Main Street & Texas Avenue, Houston new building, new store announced 7.10.20, opened ca. 5.21 6 stories + basement, @ 80,000 square feet

BURGESS-NASH CO., Harney & Seventeenth streets, Omaha new building opened 9.12.21 8 stories + basement, $1,500,000 closed 1924

MAAS BROS., Zack, Franklin & Tampa streets, Tampa new building, new location announced 1.21.20, opened ca. 7.20 4 stories + basement, @ 55,000 square feet purchased American National Bank Building addition opened 10.18.21 7 stories closed 1991 demolished 2006

OUTLET CO., Weybosset Street, Providence addition announced 4.13.20, opened 1921 Angell & Swift, architects 5 stories + basement, 78,000 square feet closed 1980 burned, demolished 1986

1922

THALHEIMER BROS., 613 Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia addition opened 10.27.22 Carneal & Johnston, architects 5, 4 stories + basement closed 1992 demolished 2004

2 L. BAMBERGER & CO., Market, Washington & Halsey streets, Newark addition announced 7.30.21, opened 10.30.22 Jarvis Hunt (Chicago), architect Taussig & Flesch (Chicago), interior designers 8 stories + 2 basement levels, 118,500 square feet, $1,500,000 closed 1992 extant (5.09)

F. & R. LAZARUS & CO., High, Town & Front streets, Columbus, Ohio addition announced ca. 1921, opened ca. 1921-22 5 stories + basement closed 2004 extant, altered (4.08)

HIGBEE CO., Euclid Avenue & Thirteenth Street, Cleveland addition announced 5.28.22, opened ca. 11.22.-1.23 Abraham Garfield, architect 5 stories + basement, $800,000 replaced by store at new location 1931 no longer standing (7.98)

1923

EDWARD MALLEY CO., Chapel & Temple streets, New Haven, Connecticut addition announced 2.10.20, opened 3.1.23 Brown & Von Beren, architects 3 stories + basement, @ 56,000 square feet replaced by store at new location 1962 demolished 1963

JOSEPH HORNE CO., Stannix Street, Penn Avenue & Duquesne Way, Pittsburgh addition announced 9.14.21, opened 4.24.23 Benno Jenssen, architect 7 stories + basement, 230,000 square feet, $2,400,000 closed 1995 extant (9.08)

ROLLMAN & SONS CO., Fifth & Vine streets, Cincinnati new building announced 1.15.20, opened 7.2.23 12 stories + basement, 160,000 square feet, $1,000,000 closed 1961 demolished 1961 for Mabley & Carew store

3 J. W. ROBINSON CO., Seventh & Hope streets, Grand Avenue, Los Angeles addition announced 9.20.22, opened ca. 9.23 Dodd & Richards, architects 7 stories + basement, $900,000 closed 1993 extant (6.07)

KAHN BROTHERS, Broadway & Sixteenth Street, Oakldand addition announced 2.21.23, opened, 12.7.23 E. W. Cannon, architect 6 stories + basement, 45,000 square feet used for store closed ca. 1981 extant (10.09)

1924

MILLER & RHOADS, Grace, Fifth & Sixth streets, Richmond, Virginia addition announced 10.24.21, opened 3.24.24 Starrett & Van Vleck (New York), architects 5 stories + 2 basement levels, 200,000+ square feet, $1,500,000 closed 1990 extant (4.02)

M. RICH & RBOS. CO., Broad, Alabama & Forsyth streets, Atlanta new building, new location announced 5.21.22, opened 3.24.24 Hentz, Reid & Adler, architects 6 stories + basement, 210,000 square feet, $1,200,000 closed 1991 extant (5.99)

FIFTTH STREET STORE, Broadway & Fifth Street, Los Angeles new building announced 8.14.21, opened ca. 3.24 Aleck E. Curlett, architect 11 stories + basement, 375,000 square feet, $1,500,000 closed 1953 extant (6.07)

BUFFUM'S DEPARTMENT STORE, Broadway & Pine Avenue, Long Beach, California addition opened 7.28.24 6 stories + basement closed 1991 no longer standing (4.98)

4 GIMBEL BROS., Grand Avenue & Sycamore Street, Milwaukee Gimbel's addition announced 5.8.22, opened ca. 9.24 Herman J. Esser, architect 8 stories + basement, $500,000 closed 1997 extant (9.99)

B. LOWENSTEIN & BROS., Monroe & Main streets, Memphis City Stores new building, new location announced 3.11.23, opened 9.8.24 Emile Weile and Hawker & Cairns, associated architects 8 stories + basement, 202,500 square feet, $1,000,000 closed ca. 1982 extant (3.07)

R. H. MACY & CO., W. Thirty-Fourth & W. Thirty Fifth streets, New York addition announced 2.9.21, opened 9.8.24 Robert D. Kohn & Associates, architects 19 stories + basements, @ 500,000 square feet extant, in operation (3.09)

SAKS FIFTH AVENUE, Fifth Avenue, Forty-Ninth & Fiftieth streets, New York Gimbel's new building, new store announced 3.14.22, opened 9.15.24 Starrett & Van Vleck, architects 10 stories + basement, 400,000 square feet, $3,000,000 extant, in operation (3.09)

MAISON BLANCHE, Iberville Street, between Burgundy & Dauphin streets, New Orleans City Stores addition announced 3.16.23, opened 9.15.24 4 stories, 135,000 square feet, @ $300,000 closed 1988 extant (11.06)

VANDEVER DRY GOODS COMPANY, 14-16 E. Fifth Street, Tulsa new building opened 9.29.24 5 stories + basement, $250,000+ Atkinson & Olston, architects

YOUNKER BROS., Walnut & Eighth streets, Des Moines addition announced 10.19.22, opened fall 24 6 stories + basement extant, altered (11.03)

THE BROADWAY, Broadway & Seventh Street, Los Angeles

5 addition announced 8.9.21, opened 11.10.24 John and Donald B. Parkinson, architect 10 stories + 2 basement levels, 120,000 square feet, $600,000 closed 1973 extant (6.07)

L. S. DONALDSON CO., Sixth & Seventh streets, Nicolet & Marquette avenues, Minneapolis new building (only part of scheme realized) announced 12.30.23, opened 11.10.24 Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (Chicago), architects 8 stories + 2 basement levels, 153,700 square feet, $1,750,000 closed 1995 demolished ca. 1996

1925

A. I. NAMM & SON, Fulton Street, Brooklyn addition announced 1.12.24, opened 2.4.25 Robert D. Kohn and Charles Butler, associated architects 9 stories + basement, 65,000 square feet closed 1957 extant (7.02)

MAY CO., Broadway, Hill & Eighth streets, Los Angeles May Co. addition announced 7.28.23, opened 3.2.25 Albert C. Martin, architects 9 stories + basement, 242,300 square feet, $1,000,000 closed 1980s extant (6.07)

MCCURDY & CO., E. Main & Elm streets, Rochester, New York addition announced 8.15.22, opened 3.9.25 6 stories + basement, @ 100k square feet closed 1994 no longer standing (7.98)

LANSBURGH & BRO., Eighth & E streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. addition announced 1.26.24, opened 3.10.25 Milburn & Heister, architects 6 stories + basement, 50,000 square feet, $1,000,000 (?) closed 1973 all but facade demolished 1989

ADAM, MELDRUM & ANDERSON, Pearl Street, Buffalo

6 addition (only part of scheme realized) announced 4.24.23, opened 4.25 8 stories + basement, 70,000 square feet, @ $500,000 replaced by store purchased from J. N. Adam 1960 no longer standing (7.98)

BERNHEIMER-LEADER STORES, Lexington, Howard & Marion streets, Baltimore addition announced 8.25.23, opened 5.22.25 Smith & May, architects Taussig & Flesch (Chicago), interior designers 8 stories + 2 basement levels, 198,000 square feet, $2,500,000 purchased by May Co. 1927 closed 1988 extant (3.06)

GOERKE CO., Broad, Hawley & W. Park streets, Newark new building announced ca. 8.23, opened 6.3.25 8 stories + basement, 200,000 square feet purchased by James A. Hearn & Son 1937 closed ca. 1969 extant (7.97)

SIBLEY, LINDSAY & CURR CO., North & Franklin streets, Rochester, New York addition announced 11.22, opened ca. 7.25 12, 6 stories + basement, $1,700,000 extant (7.98)

SANGER BROS., Fifth & Houston streets, Fort Worth new building, new location opened. 8.28.25 Wiley G. Clarkson, architect 8 stories + 2 basement levels., $1,250,000 replaced by new building at new location 1963 extant, altered (2.04)

KERR DRY GOODS CO., 312-18 W. Main Street, Oklahoma City new building, new location announced 2.25.24, opened 8.31.25 8 stories + basement, 105,000 square feet, $400,000 no longer standing (9.00)

J. L. HUDSON CO., Gratiot Avenue & Farmer Street, Detroit addition announced 12.24.23, opened 9.1.25 Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, architects 15 stories + 3 basement levels, 463,000 square feet, $4,000,000 closed 1983

7 demolished 1998

B. NUGENT DRY GOODS CO., Broadway, Washington & St. Charles streets, St. Louis National new building (only part of scheme realized) announced 6.5.23, opened 9.9.25 Mauran, Russell & Crowell, architects 9 stories + basement, 100,000 square feet closed 1933 no longer standing (4.96)

B. GERTZ, Jamaica Avenue, Queens, New York new building (large addition to small, existing store) opened 9.10.25 6 stories + basement, @ 160,000 square feet closed 2001 extant (5.97)

MAY CO., Sixteenth & Champa streets, Denver May Co. addition announced 10.11.23, opened 9.14.25 6 stories + basement, $1,000,000 replaced by store at new location 1958 no longer standing (4.03)

HECHT CO., Seventh & F streets, N.W., Washington, D.C new building announced 3.23.24, opened 11.12.25 Jarvis Hunt (Chicago), architect 7 stories + basement, $160,000 replaced by building at new location extant (12.08)

CROWLEY, MILNER CO., Gratiot Avenue, Randolph, Monroe & Library streets, Detroit addition announced 1.7.25, opened ca. 11.22.25 Smith, Hinchman & Grylls (?), architects closed ca. 1988 demolished ca. 1988

LOUIS PIZITZ DRY GOODS CO., Second Avenue & Nineteenth Street, Birmingham new building, new location announced 4.13.21, opened ca. 11.25 Starrett & Van Vleck (New York) and Harry B. Wheelock, associated architects 7 stories + 2 basement levels, 250,000 square feet, $2,000,000 closed late 1980s extant, vacant (5.99)

1926

8 HERPOLSHIEMER CO., Ionia Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan addition (purchase of existing building) announced 9.21.25, opened 1.26 7 stories + basement replaced by store at new location 1949 building purchased by Wurzburg Co. department store ca. 1950 no longer standing (4.00)

HENS & KELLY, Main, W. Mohawk & Pearl streets, Buffalo new building (only part of scheme realized) announced 5.25.22, opened 3.15.26 & Lyman, architects 6 stories + 2 basement levels, $1,000,000 closed 1980s extant, altered (7.98)

D. M. READ CO., Broad & John streets, Bridgeport, Connecticut new building, new location opened 3.17.26 Joseph W. Northrop and Monks & Johnson (Boston), associated architects 5 stories + basement, 142,800 square feet extant (6.98)

SCRANTON DRY GOODS CO., Wyoming & Lacakawanna avenues, Scranton, Pennsylvania addition announced 2.8.24, opened 4.27.26 9 stories + basement, 75,000 square feet, @ $1,000,000 extant (2.05)

CROMER-CASSEL, N. Miami Avenue & N.E. 1st Street, Miami new building, new store announced. ca. 5.3.25, opened 5.28.26 7 stories + basement, 175,000 square feet building purchased by Richards Department Store 1950 extant, altered (6.00)

F. & R. LAZARUS & CO., Front & Town streets, Columbus, Ohio addition announced 6.11.25, opened ca. 10.26 Starrett & Van Vleck (New York) and Snyder & Babbitt, associated architects 7 stories + basement closed 2004 extant (4.08)

WOODWARD & LOTHROP, F, G, Tenth & Eleventh streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. addition ann. 2.4.25, o. 11.4.26 Loring Ashford (Woodward & Lothrop), architect 8 stories + basement, $1,000,000 closed 1995

9 extant (12.09)

L. S. PLAUT & CO., Broad, Cedar & Halsey streets, Newark new building announced 2.2.24, opened 11.9.26 Starrett & Van Vleck (New York), architects 9 stories + basement, 700,000 square feet, $9,000,000 closed 1964 extant (7.97)

STROUSS-HIRSHBERG CO., 14-28 Federal Street, Youngstown, Ohio new building announced 3.9.25, opened 11.2.26 6 stories + basement, 250,000 square feet, $400,000 closed 1987 extant (8.98)

1927

DAVISON-PAXON CO., Peachtree, Ellis & Spring streets, Atlanta Macy's new building, new location announced 3.23.35, opened 3.21.27 Starrett & Van Vleck (New York), Heinz, Adler & Schutze, associated architects 6 stories + 2 basement levels, 402,000 square feet closed 2003 extant (5.99)

GIMBEL BROS., Chestnut, Eighth & Ninth streets, Philadelphia Gimbel's addition (only part of scheme realized) announced 7.2.25, opened 4.19.27 Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (Chicago), architects 12 stories + 2 basement levels, 784,000 square feet, $8,000,000 replaced by store at new location 1977 extant (12.07)

HALLE BROS. CO., Huron Road, Cleveland addition (annex building) announced 2.28.26, opened 5.31.27 Walker & Weeks, architects 6 stories + 2 basement levels, 300,000 square feet closed 1982 extant, gutted (7.98)

KRAUS CO., Canal Street, New Orleans addition announced before 2.17.27, opened 10.2.27 5 stories + basement, 70,000 square feet closed 1990s extant (11.06)

10 NEIMAN-MARCUS CO., Main & Ervay streets, Dallas addition announced 1.8.26, opened 10.3.27 Herbert M. Greene Co., architect 4 stories + basement, 50,000 square feet, @ $500,000 extant, altered, in operation (2.04)

BIG STORE CO., Seventh, Race & College streets, Cincinnati new building (purchase and remodeling of existing building announced 4.25.27, opened 10.31.27 9 stories + basement, 60,000 square feet closed 1947 extant (4.08)

LASALLLE & KOCH CO., Adams & Superior streets, Toledo Macy's addition (rooftop) announced 3.4.26, opened 11.12.27 2-stories closed ca. 1976 extant (7.97)

1928

RHODES DEPARTMENT STORE, First & Second avenues, Union & University streets, Seattle new building, new location announced 10.13.26, opened ca. 2.28 Thomas, Grainger & Thomas, architects 7 stories + basement, @ 300,000 square feet, $1,500,000 no longer standing (6.04)

M. O'NEIL CO., S. Main & State streets, Akron, Ohio May Co. new building, new location announced 12.7.26, opened 3.13.28 Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (Chicago), architects 6 stories + basement, $3,000,000 extant, altered (1.98)

HECHT BROS., Baltimore & Pine streets, Baltimore addition announced 12.7.26, opened 5.12.28 Abbott, Merkt & Co. (New York), architects-engineers, Smith & May, consulting 6 stories + basement, 210,000 square feet no longer standing (9.99)

BULLOCK'S, Seventh & Hill streets, Los Angeles addition announced 4.13.23, opened 9.9.28 John & Donald B. Parkinson, architects

11 10 stories + basement, @ $1,000,000 closed 1986 extant (6.07)

BROWN-DUNKIN DRY GOODS CO., Fourth & Main streets, Tulsa addition announced 7.14.27, opened fall 28 11 stories (3 for the store) added to 4-story + basement building closed 1970 no longer standing (9.00)

L. BAMBERGER & CO., Washington & Halsey streets, Newark Macy's addition announced 12.18.26, opened 10.30.28 Jarvis Hunt (Chicago), architect Taussig & Flesch (Chicago), interior designers 16 stories + 4 basement, 500,000 square feet, $10,000,000 closed 1992 extant (5.09)

J. L. HUDSON CO., Grand River & Woodward avenues, Farmer Street, Detroit addition announced 9.23.27, opened 11.7.28 Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, architects 16 stories + 4 basement levels, @ 660,000 square feet closed 1983 demolished 1998

LAMSON BROS., Jefferson Avenue & Huron Street, Toledo new building, new location announced 11.25.27, opened 11.13.28 Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Nordhoff, architect 5 stories + basement, 197,8000 square feet, $1,000,000 extant (7.97)

1929

ERNEST KERN CO., Woodward & Gratiot avenues, Detroit addition announced 10.31.25, opened 3.1.29 Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, architects 10 stories + basement, 214,000 square feet closed 1959 demolished

O'CONNOR MOFFATT CO., Stockton & O'Farrell streets, San Francisco new building announced 10.5.26, opened 3.4.29 Lewis Hobart, architect

12 8 stories + basement, 245,000 square feet purchased by Macy's 1945 extant, in operation (5.08)

HOWLAND DRY GOODS CO., Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut addition opened 5.9.29 6 stories + basement, 110,000 square feet no longer standing (7.98)

SANGER BROS., Fourth, Houston, & Throckmorton streets, Fort Worth new building opened 6.25.29 Wyatt C. Hedrick, architect 5 stories + basement, @ 120,000 square feet, $1,000,000

BON MARCHE, Stewart & Pine streets, Third & Fourth avenues, Seattle Allied new building, new location announced 3.15.25, opened 8.5.29 John Graham, architect 4 stories + 2 basement levels., 525,000 square feet, $5,000,000 extant, in operation as Macy’s (6.04)

H. C. CAPWELL CO., Broadway, Twentieth Street & Telegraph Avenue, Oakland new building, new location announced 11.17.27, opened 8.5.29 Starrett & Van Vleck (New York), Ashley & Everts, associated architects Taussig & Flesch (Chicago), interior designers 4 stories + 2 basement levels, 480,000 square feet, $5,000,000 extant, altered (10.09)

I. MAGNIN & CO., Grant Avenue & Geary Street, San Francisco addition announced 7.11.27, opened 8.17.29 Bliss & Fairweather, architects 8 stories + basement, @ $500,000 extant, in operations as Macy’s (5.08)

LEVY BROS. DRY GOODS CO., Main Street & Walker Avenue, Houston new building, new location announced 6.19.29, opened 9.4.29 9 stories + basement, 120,000+ square feet extant, altered (4.98)

L. S. AYRES & CO., Washington & Meridian streets, Indianapolis addition announced 2.1.28, opened 9.14.29 Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller, architects 11 stories + 2 basement levels, @ $1,500,000 closed 1992

13 extant (8.98)

THALHEIMER BROS., Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia addition announced 1.4.28, opened 10.2.29 Carneal & Johnston, architects 5 stories + 2 basement levels, @ 70,000 square feet, $500,000 closed 1992 demolished 2004

WISE CO., Broadway & Pine Avenue, Long Beach, California new building opened. 10.4.29 W. Horace Austin, architects 5 + 4 stories + basement, 500,000+ square feet, $2,000,000 closed 1950s stripped to concrete frame ca.1964-65

R. H. MACY & CO., W. Thirty-Fourth & W. Thirty-Fifth streets, New York Macy's addition announced 9.25.28, opened ca. 10.29 Robert D. Kohn & Associates, architects 19 stories + basements, 75,000 square feet extant, in operation (3.09)

ABRAHAM & STRAUS, Fulton, Hoyt, Livingston streets, Brooklyn new building (only part of scheme realized) announced 6.7.28, opened 11.3.29 Starrett & Van Vleck, architects 10 stories + 2 basement levels extant, in operation as Macy’s (7.02)

WISE, SMITH & CO., Main Street, Hartford addition announced 3.5.29, opened 11.21.29 9 stories + basement, @ 120,000 square feet closed 1954 no longer standing (6.98)

TITCHE GOETTINGER CO., Main, Elm & St. Paul streets, Dallas Allied new building, new location announced 4.14.25, opened 11.25.29 Herbert M. Greene, La Roche & Dahl, associated architects 7 stories + 2 basement levels, $2,500,000 closed late 1980s/1990s extant, part of interior demolished (2.04)

HALLIBURTON-ABBOTT, Fifth Street & Boulder Avenue, Tulsa new building announced 10.17.28, opened 12.2.29

14 Frank C. Walter, architect 7 stories + basement, @120,000 square feet, $1,000,000 no longer standing (9.00)

1930

MAY CO., Broadway, Hill & Eighth streets, Los Angeles May Co. addition announced before 5.7.29, opened before 3.25.30 Albert C. Martin, architect 9 stories + basement, @ 250,000 square feet closed 1980s extant (6.07)

A. POLSKY CO., S. Main, Center, State & High streets, Akron, Ohio Allied new building, new location announced 4.9.29, opened 9.14.30 Good & Wagner, architects 4 stories + basement, 165,000 square feet (selling space), $3,000,000 closed 1978 extant (1.98)

THE FAIR OF TEXAS, Seventh & Throckmorton streets, Fort Worth new building / new site announced 4.9.29, opened 9.22.30 Wyatt C. Hedrick, architect 6 stories + 2 basement levels, 168,000 square feet

JULIUS GARFINCKEL & CO., Fourteenth & G streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. new building, new location announced 5.20.28, opened 10.6.30 Starrett & Van Vleck (New York), architects 9 stories + basement closed ca. 1985 extant (12.09)

H. & S. POGUE CO., Race & Fourth streets, Cincinnati addition announced 8.26.29, opened 10.21.30 Walter Alshlager (Chicago) and Delano & Aldrich (New York), associated architects 8 stories + basement, 50,000 square feet closed 1980s extant (main building demolished) (4.08)

T. A. CHAPMAN CO., Milwaukee & E. Michigan streets, Milwaukee addition announced 8.26.30, project? Starrett & Van Vleck (New York), architects 5 stories + basement, @ 161,000 square feet

15 closed 1987

LEONARD BROTHERS, Houston and W. First streets, Fort Worth new building, new location announced 1.30.30, opened ca. 10.9.30 2 stories + basement, 87,000 square feet, $300,000, parking closed 1974

1931

BLOOMINGDALE BROS., Lexington & Third avenues, Fifty-Ninth & Sixtieth streets, New York Federated new building (only part of scheme realized) announced 2.17.29, opened 6.31 Starrett & Van Vleck, architects 11 stories + 2 basement levels extant, in operation (3.07)

R. H. MACY & CO., Seventh Avenue, Thirty-Fourth & Thirty-Fifth streets, New York Macy's addition announced 9.13.29, opened by 6.31 Robert D. Kohn & Associates, architects 19 stories + basements extant, in operation (3.09)

HIGBEE CO., Public Square & Prospect Avenue, Cleveland new building, new location announced 5.20.30, opened 9.8.31 Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (Chicago), architects Taussig & Flesch (Chicago), interior designers 12 stories + basements, 1,000,000 square feet, $15,000,000 closed 2002 extant (7.98)

BROWN-DUNKIN DRY GOODS CO., Fourth & Main streets, Tulsa additional floors opened and space acquired in adjacent building opened ca. 10.22.31 58,200 square feet (275,000 square feet total no longer standing (9.00)

MAY CO., Public Square & Euclid Avenue, Cleveland May Co. addition announced 1.18.31, opened 11.9.31 Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (Chicago), architects Grand Rapids Store Equipment Co. (Grand Rapids), interior designers 2-story rooftop, 200,000 square feet, $3,5000,000 extant (7.98)

1932

16 MEIER & FRANK, Morrison & Sixth streets, Portland, Oregon addition announced 6.13.29, opened 10.3.32 Herman Brookman and DeYoung, Moskowitz & Rosenberg (New York), associated architects 14 stories + 3 basement levels., $2,000,000 extant, in operation as Macy’s (9.06)

HUTZLER BROS. CO., 220-226 N. Howard Street, Baltimore addition announce 8.11.31, opened 10.11.32 James R. Edmunds and H. C. Crist of office of Jos. Evans & Sperry, architects 5 stories + basement, 50,000 square feet closed 1990 extant (10.09)

JOHN WANAMAKER, Broad & Chestnut streets, Philadelphia addition (separate building) announced 8.15.28, opened 10.12.32 John T. Windrim, architect 24 stories + basements (8 stories for store), 114,000 square feet, $10,000,000 (total) Store for Men component closed ca. 1951 extant, altered (11.08)

STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER, Market & Eighth streets, Philadelphia new building announced 6.7.28, opened 10.31.32 Simon & Simon, architects Taussig & Flesch (Chicago), interior designers 14 stories + basements, 1,000,000 square feet, $10,000,000 closed 2006 extant (11.08)

1933

WALKER’S, 401-23 Pine Avenue, Long Beach, California new building announced 1928, opened 8.18.33 Meyer & Holler, architects 4 stories + basement closed 1979 extant (1.08)

1934

BULLOCK'S Hill Street, north of Seventh Street, Los Angeles addition

17 announced 7.15.33, opened 4.3.34 John and Donald B. Parkinson, architects 8 stories + basement, 93,607 square feet, $400,000 Store for Men closed 1986 extant (6.07)

1935

J. N. ADAM & CO., Main & Eagle streets, Buffalo Associated addition announced 4.11.35, opened 10.28.35 Starrett & Van Vleck (New York), architects 6 stories + basement, $700,000 purchased by Adam, Meldrum & Anderson 1960 closed 1995 extant, altered (10.09)

LOVEMAN, JOSEPH & LOEB, Nineteenth Street & Thirdd Avenue, N., Birmingham City Stores new building (replaced one destroyed by fire) announced @ 3.11.34, opened 11.19.35 William E. Lehman (Newark) and Miller, Martin & Lewis, associated architects 4 stories + basement, $1,250,000 closed 1986 extant (5.99)

1936

THALHEIMER BROS., Broad & Sixth streets, Richmond, Virginia addition opened 10.19.36 3 stories + basement and 1-story rooftop, $500,000 closed 1992 demolished 2004

WHITNEY & CO., 6th Avenue & E Street, San Diego rebuilding, alterations, additions after fire announced 10.23.36, opened 12.4.36 F. W. Stevenson, architect 3, 2 stories + basement no longer standing (2.99)

1937

H. P. WASSON CO., Washington & Meridian streets, Indianapolis addition announced 5.11.36, opened 1937 Rubush & Hunter, architects

18 8 stories + basement closed 1979 extant (7.99)

JOHN SHILLITO CO., Race, Seventh & Elm streets, Cincinnati Federated addition announced 9.15.36, opened 10.26.37 Potter, Tyler & Martin, architects 10, 7 stories + 2 basement levels, $2,300,000 extant (4.08)

1938

W. C. STRIPLING CO., Main, Houston, W. First & W. Second streets, Forth Worth addition and alterations announced 4.8.37, opened ca. 4.38 W. G. Clarkson, architect 3 stories + 2 basement levels, 64,000 square feet, $1,000,000 closed ca. 1978 demolished 1979

RIKE-KUMLER CO., Main & Second streets, Dayton additions announced 11.36, opened 5.12.38 Schenck & Williams, architects 8 stories + basement +1-story rooftop, 165,000 square feet, $1,500,000 closed 1991 extant, vacant (7.98)

DAYTON CO., Nicolet Avenue, Seventh, Eighth & LaSalle streets, Minneapolis additions announced 3.25.37, opened 1938 10 stories + basement + 6-, 4-story rooftop, 200,000 square feet, $1,250,000 extant, in operation as Macy’s (9.06)

BURDINE'S, E. Flagler Street & N. Miami Avenue, Miami addition announced 5.5.36, opened 11.28.38 E. L. Robertson and John L. Weber, associated architects Eleanor Le Maire (New York), interior designer. 7 stories + basement, $1,000,000 extant, in operation as Macy’s (9.00)

1939

LEONARD BROTHERS, W. First & Throckmorton streets, Forth Worth announced 2.17.37, opened, 3.23.39 2 stories + basement, 20,000 square feet, $150,000

19 closed 1974

JOSKE BROS. CO., Blum Street & Alamo Plaza, San Antonio addition + ext. remodeling announced 12.4.38, opened 11.22.39 Bartlett Cocke, architect 4 stories + basement, @ $100,000 extant (4.98)

G. FOX & CO., Main & Talcott streets, Hartford addition opened 1939 Taussig & Flesch (Chicago), architects 12 stories + basement, 249,605 square feet, $3,500,000 extant, altered (3.07)

1940

M. RICH & BROS. CO., Forsyth Street, Atlanta addition announced 12.20.39, opened 9.16.40 Hentz, Adler & Shutze, architects 5 stories + 2 basement levels, 120,000 square feet, $1,000,000 closed 1991 demolished ca 1992

1941

MAY CO., Lexington Street, Baltimore May Co. addition announced 10.2.40, opened spring 41 Smith & May, architects 8 stories + basement, $750,000 extant (3.08)

NEIMAN-MARCUS CO., Main, Commercial & Ervay streets, Dallas addition announced 6.22.39, opened 9.11.41 La Roche & Dahl, architects Eleanor Le Maire (New York), interior desinger 5 stories + basement, 1-story rooftop extant, altered, in operation (2.04)

A. POLSKY CO., S. Main, Center, State & High streets, Akron, O. Allied addition announced 1941, opened 10.13.41 Good & Wagner, architects 1-story rooftop, 35,000 square feet

20 closed 1978 extant, altered (1.98)

HECHT CO., Seventh & E streets, Washington, D.C. addition (separate, connected building) announced 7.24.40, opened 11.12.41 Abbott, Merkt & Company (New York), architects-engineers 5 stories + basement, 75,000 square feet demolished ca. 1980

MAY CO., Sixteenth, Champa & Curtis streets, Denver May Co. addition announced 11.18.40, opened 1941 Fisher, Fisher & Hubbell, architects Taussig & Flesch (Chicago), interior designers 7 stories + 2 basement levels, @ 100,000 square feet, $1,500,000 replaced by store at new location 1959 no longer standing (4.03)

MILLER & RHOADS, Grace Street, Richmond, Virginia addition opened fall 1941 Carneal, Johnston & Wright, architects 3 ½-story rooftop, 40,000 square feet closed 1986 extant (4.02)

1942

HUTZLER BROS. CO., 220-226 N. Howard Street, Baltimore addition announced 1.8.41, opened 1942 James R. Edmunds, architect 5-story rooftop closed 1990 extant (10.09)

1946

J. L. HUDSON CO., Woodward, Gratiot & Grand River avenues, Detroit addition announced 11.14.45, opened 1946 Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, architects 12 stories + basements, 2-story rooftop, @ 66,000 square feet closed 1983 demolished 1998

LOVEMAN, JOSEPH & LOEB, Second Avenue, N., Birmingham City Stores

21 addition announced 8.30.45, opened ca. 1946 purchase and remodeling of existing building closed 1986 extant (5.99)

L. S. AYRES & CO., Meridian Street, Indianapolis addition announced 12.31.45, opened 1946/1947 11 stories + basement, $500,000+ closed 1992 extant (4.08)

JULIUS GARFINCKEL & CO., F & 13th streets, Washington, D.C. addition announced 1.24.45, opened. 46/47 Porter & Lockie, architects 9 stories + basement, 30,000 square feet closed ca. 1985s extant (12.09)

1947

A. POLSKY CO., High Street, Akron, Ohio Allied addition announced 3.2.46, opened 47 2-story rooftop, 85,000 square feet closed 1978 extant, altered (1.98)

ROLLMAN & SONS CO., Fifth & Vine streets, Cincinnati Allied addition, purchase of adjacent building announced 2.20.46, opened 5.5.47 Carl F. Kiefer, architect 10 stories + basement, $1,000,000 closed 1960 demolished for Mabley & Carew store 1961

STEWART DRY GOODS CO., Walnut & Fourth streets, Louisville Associated addition announced 3.10.47, opened ca. 9.1.47 Louis & Henry, architects Raymond Loewy Corporation (New York), interior designers 7 stories + basement closed ca. 1986 no longer standing (4.96)

ABRAHAM & STRAUS, Livingston Street, Brooklyn addition

22 announced 9.14.45, opened 9.47 Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, architects 8 stories + basement, 104,900 square feet (selling space), $4,000,000 extant, in operation as Macy’s (7.02)

THALHEIMER BROS., Seventh & Grace streets, Richmond, Virginia addition announced 3.46, opened 9.16.47 Carneal & Johnston, architects, Kahn & Jacobs (New York), architects of exterior Taussig & Flesch (Chicago), Raymond Loewy (New York), DeYoung, Moskowitz & Rosenberg (New York), Ketchum, Gina & Sharp (New York), interior designers 5 stories + basement closed 1992 demolished 2004

FOLEY BROS., Main & Travis streets, Lamar & Dallas avenues, Houston Federated new building, new location announced 5.22.45, opened 10.21.47 Kenneth Franzheim, architect Raymond Loewy Corporation (New York), interior designers 6 stories + basement, 496,371 square feet, $9,000,000 (including garage & warehouse) extant, in operation as Macy’s (9.06)

B. GERTZ, Jamaica Avenue, Queens, New York Allied addition announced 4.20.45, opened 10.28.47 6 stories + basement, 7 stories + 2 basement levels, 175,000 square feet extant, altered (5.97)

1948

J. N. ADAM & CO., Main, Eagle & Washington streets, Buffalo Associated addition announced 3.30.45, open 2.26.48 Starrett & Van Vleck (New York), architects Raymond Loewy Corporation and Peter Copeland, interior designers (New York) 12 stories + basement, $1,000,000 purchased by Adam, Meldrum & Anderson 1960 extant, altered (10.09)

M. RICH & BROS. CO., Forsyth & Hunter streets, Atlanta addition announced 2.17.46, opened 3.29.48 Toombs & Creighton, architects Eleanor Le Maire (New York) and Robert Grant (Rich's), interior designer 6 stories + 2 basement, 337,000 square feet, $7,000,000 Store for Homes closed 1991 demolished ca.1992

23 H. P. WASSON & CO., Washington & Meridian streets, Indianapolis addition announced 11.25.47, opened ca. 6.48 Granham, Anderson, Probst & White (Chicago), architects 3 stories, 24,000 square feet, $250,000 closed 1979 extant (4.08)

LEONARD BROTHERS, W. First & Throckmorton streets, Fort Worth announced 1.13.47, opened 9.1.48 Preston M. Green, architect 5 stories + basement, 115,000 square feet, $1,500,000 closed 1974

R. H. MACY & CO., Stockton & O'Farrell streets, San Francisco Macy's addition (purchased O'Connor Moffatt 1945; name change 10.16.47 announced 10.16.47, opened late 1948 W. P. Day, architect 8 stories + basement, $6,500,000 extant, in operation (3.09)

BURDINE'S, E. Flagler Street & N. Miami Avenue, Miami addition (including separate, connected building) announced 8.30.44, opened 1948 E. L. Robertson and John L. Weber, associated architects Eleanor Le Maire (New York), interior designer 6, 4 stories + basement, $1,000,000 extant, in operation as Macy’s (9.06)

DAYTON CO., Nicolet Avenue, Seventh, Eighth & LaSalle streets, Minneapolis additions announced 1946, opened 1948 4-story rooftop, $1,550,000 extant, in operation as Macy’s (9.06)

1949

I. MAGNIN & CO., Geary & Stockton streets, San Francisco new building (using existing structural frame) announced 10.27.44, opened 1.19.49 Timothy and Milton Pfleuger, architects Neel Parker, interior designer 10 stories + 2 basement levels extant, in operation as Macy’s (3.03)

HALLE BROS. CO., Huron Street, Cleveland addition announced. ca. 4.47, opened 8.1.49

24 Walker & Weeks, architects 12 stories + basement closed 1982 extant (7.98)

DAVISON-PAXON, Ellis & Carnegie streets, Atlanta Macy's addition announced 10.23.45, opened 8.16.49 Ketchum, Gina & Sharp (New York), architects 5 stories + basement, $4,000,000 closed 2003 extant (5.99)

R. H. MACY & CO., Main Street & Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City Macy's new building announced 3.30.47, opened 10.17.49 Kivett & Meyers, architects Gruen & Krummeck (Los Angeles), Daniel Schwartzman (New York), interior designers 7 stories + basement, 435,000 square feet no longer standing (9.00)

HERPOLSHIEMER'S, Monroe & Division avenues and Fulton Street, Grand Rapids Allied new building, new location announced 4.2.47, opened 11.15.49 Perry, Shaw & Hepburn (Boston) and George Ely (Allied Stores, New York), associated architects Grand Rapids Store Equipment Co., interior designers 3 stories+ 2 basement levels, 347,500 square feet, $3,000,000 closed 1992 extant (4.00)

RIKE-KUMLER CO., W. Second Street, Dayton addition announcement 12.27.47, opened 1949 Lorenz & Williams, architects 9 stories + basement, 1-story rooftop, 68,800 square feet closed 1991 extant, vacant (7.98)

W. C. STRIPLING CO., Main, W. First & W. Second streets, Houston new building annex, across street from main building opened 1949 closed ca. 1978 demolished 1979

1950

KAUFMAN-STRAUS CO., Louisville City Stores addition announced 6.25.47, opened ca. 9.9.50

25 Louis & Henry, architects C. E. Swanson Co. (Chicago), interior designers 1 story rooftop, $2,000,000 closed 1971 no longer standing (4.96)

1951

SAKOWITZ BROS., Main & Fannin streets, Dallas Avenue, Houston new building, new location announcement 8.21.49, opened 2.19.51 Alfred C. Finn, architect I. S. & S. J. Brochstein, interior designers 5 stories + basement, 254,000 square feet, $8,000,000 closed 1990 extant, gutted (4.99)

WURZBURG CO., Monroe & Ottawa avenues, Grand Rapids new building (purchase Herpolsheimer’s) and additions opened. 4.10.51 C. E. Swanson Associates (Chicago) and Grand Rapids Store Equipment Co., interior designers 10 stories, 7 stories, 6 stories, + 3 stories + basement, 254,324 square feet, @ $5,000,000 closed ca. 1960 no longer standing (4.00)

E. W. EDWARDS & SONS, Syracuse additions announced 10.25.50, opened before 9.1.51 5 stories + basement, 25,000 square feet no longer standing (7.99)

M. RICH & BROS. CO., Broad Street, Atlanta addition (Store for Men) opened 9.51 Stevens & Wilkinson, architects Eleanor Le Maire (New York), interior designer 6 stories + basement, 84,500 square feet closed 1991 demolished ca. 1992

BROWN-DUNKIN CO., Eighth Street and Cincinnati Avenue, Tulsa addition opened 10.51 C. E. Swanson Co. (Chicago), architects 5 stories + basement, 58,200 square feet, $1,000,000 closed 1970 no longer standing (9.00)

RICHARDS DEPARTMENT STORE, N.E. First Street & N. Miami Avenue, Miami City Stores

26 addition and alterations for former Cromer-Cassel department store announced 6.20.50, opened 11.6.51 Stewart & Skinner, architects Adolph Novack (New York), interior designers 7, 4 stories + basement, 75,000 square feet, $1,500,000 extant, altered (6.00)

DEY BROS. & CO., S. Salina & E. Jefferson streets, Syracuse Allied addition announced 8.16.50, opened 1951 Fred B. O'Connor, architect closed ca. 1987 extant, altered (7.99)

JOHN A. BROWN CO., First & Harvey streets, Oklahoma City addition (purchase of Alexander Drug Co. Building) announced 5.1.50, opened ca. 1951 5 stories + basement, 105,000 square feet closed 1984 no longer standing (9.00)

1952

A. HARRIS & CO., Elm & Ahard streets, Dallas addition announced 6. 51, opened 6.52 George L. Dahl and James L. Hodges (Harris), associated architects 9 stories + basement, $1,000,000+ replaced by store at new location 1963 no longer standing (1.98)

FREDERICK & NELSON, Fifth Avenue & Pine Street, Seattle Marshall Field addition announced 2.21.46, opened 8.4.52 John Graham & Company, architects 4-story rooftop, $10,000,000 extant, in operation as Nordstrom’s (6.04)

1953

JOSKE BROS. CO., Blum Street & Alamo Plaza, San Antonio Allied addition announced 1.1.52, opened 9.14.53 4 stories + basement, 300,000 square feet, $3,000,000 extant (4.99)

J. GOLDSMITH & SONS, Front & McCall streets, Memphis opened 10.7.53

27 space in Hotel Gayoso, purchased 1948 building 5 stories + basement extant (3.07)

NEIMAN-MARCUS CO., Main, Commerce & Ervay streets, Dallas addition announced 12.12.49, opened 10.26.53 Rosce De Witt, architect Eleanor Le Maire (New York), interior designer 2-story rooftop + other additions, 245,000 square feet, $4,500,000 extant, altered, in operation (2.04)

JORDAN MARSH CO., Washington, Chauncey, Summer & Avon streets, Boston Allied new building announced 3.27.47, opened ca. 1953/1954 Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, architects 7 stories + 2 basement levels extant, in operation as Macy’s (1.06)

1954

MARSTON CO., C Street, Fifth & Sixth avenues, San Diego addition announced 1.8.53, opened 11.22.54 (1st two floors) Samuel W. Hamill, architect 6 stories + basement, 46,000 square feet (selling space), $2,000,000+ demolished 1969

TITCHE GOETTINGER CO., Main Street, Dallas Allied addition announced 12.28.47, opened 1954 7 stories + basement, 258,600 square feet, $4,500,000 closed late 1980s/1990s extant, part of exterior gutted (2.04)

1955

THALHEIMER BROS., Broad, Grace, Sixth, and Seventh streets, Richmond, Virginia addition announced 7.12.54, opened ca. 1.11.55 Copeland, Novak & Associates (New York), architects 6 stories + 2 basement levels, 2-story rooftop, 78,000 square feet closed 1992 demolished 2004

MARSTON CO., Fifth Avenue, San Diego addition announced 1.9.53, opened ca. 55

28 5 stories + basement, 46,000 square feet, $2,000,000 demolished 1969

BON MARCHE, Stewart, Pine, Third & Fourth streets, Seattle Allied addition announced 11.10.53, opened 1955 John Graham & Company, architects 4-story rooftop, @ 400,000 square feet, $3,000,000 extant, in operation as Macy’s (6.04)

RIKE-KUMLER CO., Main & Second streets, Dayton additions announced 6.27.54, opened ca. 1955 12 stories + basement, 1-story rooftop, 115,000 square feet extant, vacant (7.98)

KAUFMANN'S, Fifth Avenue & Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh May Co. addition announced 1953, opened 11.14.55 Hoffman & Crumpton, architects 10 stories + 3 basement levels, 211,628 square feet extant, in operation as Macy’s (9.08)

1957

FOLEY BROS., Main & Travis streets, Lamar & Dallas avenues, Houston Federated addition announced 4.12.55, opened ca. 1957 4-story rooftop + penthouse, 238,500 square feet extant, in operation as Macy’s (9.06)

MAISON BLACNHE, Dauphine & Iberville streets, New Orleans City Stores addition announced 12.21.55, opened 10.21.57 Goldstein, Parham & Labouisse, architects 6 stories + basement, 78,000 square feet, $2,000,000 closed 1988 extant (11.06)

CAIN-SLOAN CO., Church Street & Fifth Avenue, Nashville Allied new building announced 10.2956, opened 10.25.57 6 stories + basement, 346,000 square feet, $4,500,000 demolished 1994

1958

JONES STORE COMPANY, Twelfth & Main streets, Kansas City

29 addition and alterations announced 1955, opened 10.6.58 William C. Fullerton and Voskamp & Slezak, associated architects 4,3 stories + basement, 400,000 square feet, $6,000,000

SCRANTON DRY GOODS CO., N. Washington Avenue, Scranton addition announced 4.7.55, opened ca. 1958 2 stories + parking decks + basement, 40,000 square feet, $1,500,000

1959

MAY-D&F, Sixteenth Street & Tremont Place, Denver May Co. new building, new location announced 11.13.57, open 8.4.58 I. M. Pei & Associates and Ketchum, Gina & Sharp, associated architects (New York) 5 stories + 3 parking decks, 400,000 square feet in Courthouse Square complex extant, altered and front section demolished (4.03)

G. FOX & CO., Talcott Street, Hartford addition announced 7.11.56, o. 1959 Abbott, Merkt & Company, architects 8 stories, 300,000 square feet, $6,000,000 extant, altered (3.08)

STEWART DRY GOODS CO., Walnut & Fourth streets, Louisville Associated addition announced 2.4.57, opened 1959 Raymond Loewy Associates (New York), interior designers 7 stories + basement, 100,000 square feet closed 1987 no longer standing (9.98)

1960

HOCHSCHILD, KOHN & CO., Eutaw & Saratoga streets, Baltimore addition announced 7.16.59, opened ca. 4.20.60 110,000 square feet remodeling of Brager-Eisenberger Building adjacent to store closed 1970s

F. & R. LAZARUS & CO., High, Town, & Front streets, Columbus, Ohio Federated addition announced before 8.8.57, opened after 4.25.60 9 stories + basement, 287,000 square feet, $5,000,000 closed 2004

30 extant (4.08)

ADAM, MELRUM & ANDERSON, Main, Eagle & Washington streets, Buffalo new building (purchase former J. N. Adam & Co. store) opened 8.1.60 12, 6 stories + basement, 383,000 square feet closed 1995 extant, altered (10.09)

1961

ZCMI, Salt Lake City addition announced 5.31.59, opened 1961 13 stories, 4 stories used by store, 82,000 square feet purchase of Kennecott Building no longer standing (4.05)

CARSON PIRIE SCOTT & CO., State Street, Chicago addition announced 7.14.60, opened 1961 Holabird & Root, architects 8 stories, 55,000 square feet closed 2006 extant (6.07)

1962

MCCURDY & CO., Elm & Euclid streets, Rochester addition announced 9.1.60, opened 4.10.62 Victor Gruen Associates (Los Angeles), architects 6 stories + 2 basement levels, @ 115,000 square feet connection to Midtown Plaza closed 1994 extant (6.02)

EDWARD MALLEY CO., Church Street & New Frontage Road, New Haven new building, new location announced by 9.25.59, opened 10.25.62 John Graham Associates (Seattle-New York), architects 3 stories + basement, 250,000 square feet, $8,000,000 closed 1982 demolished 1990s

MABLEY & CAREW, Fifth & Vine streets, Cincinnati Allied new building, new location (site of former Rollman department store)

31 announced 12.3.61, opened 11.19.62 A. M. Kinney Associates, architects and engineers 12 stories + 2 basement levels, 319,000 square feet no longer standing (4.08)

1963

SANGER-HARRIS, Pacific & Akard streets, Dallas Federated new building, new location announced 9. 20.61, opened 1963 closed 1988 extant, altered (2.04

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