Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The company began as two separate leather apparel manufacturer-retailers: Berman Buckskin, founded in 1899, as Berman Brothers Fur, Wool and Hides founded by David, Ephraim and Alexander Berman, [3] and after World War II, reinvented as a fringed buckskin shirt and jacket retailer, [4] and Wilsons House of Suede, founded in late 1950 in Beverly Hills California by Jerry Wilson and known for ...
The Leather District is a neighborhood of Boston near South Street, between the Financial District and Chinatown.The Leather District (occasionally referred to as the "LD") is a tightly defined area bounded by Kneeland Street to the south, Essex Street to the north, Atlantic Avenue to the east and Lincoln Street to the west.
Old Feather Store, Boston, 19th century. The Old Feather Store (1680–1860) was a shop located at Dock Square and North Street (formerly Ann Street) in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 17th–19th centuries. It was also called the Old Cocked Hat. [1] Built in 1680 by Thomas Stanbury, it was demolished in 1860. [2] [3]
The West Street District is a historic district on West Street in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the city's "ladder districts" that runs between Tremont Street and Washington Street in the Downtown Crossing commercial/retail area. The district includes four buildings located near the corner of Tremont and West Streets, all built in the early ...
The Fort Point Channel Historic District is an historic district located along Congress, Summer and A streets in South Boston on the south side of Fort Point Channel.. The district includes the Boston Children's Museum (pictured, right), located in a renovated 19th-century brick industrial building, and the Boston Fire Museum, housed in the 1891 Congress Street Fire Station.
The store was a dominant retailer in Central Massachusetts. The store was popularly known as Denholm's or the Boston Store. The company was founded by William Alexander Denholm in 1870. Denholm purchased the dry-goods business of Finley, Lawson, & Kennedy located on the corner of Main and Mechanic street in Worcester.
The history of the store traces back to a dry goods store on Washington Street in Boston owned by George Turnbull & Co. in the 1840s. [1] R. Gilchrist worked at the store as a clerk and became a partner in 1855 when Turnbull retired. [2] In 1855, a store was opened at 5 Winter Street.
The R. H. Stearns Building is an 11-story residence building (with shops at ground level) at 140 Tremont Street in Boston.It was built in 1909 for the businessman R. H. Stearns and his company and was the home of the R. H. Stearns and Company department store [2] until the company's demise in 1977.