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Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. Denholm & McKay Co. was a department store located in Worcester, Massachusetts. 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.
April 11, 1973. The Old Corner Bookstore is a historic commercial building located at 283 Washington Street at the corner of School Street in the historic core of Boston, Massachusetts. It was built in 1718 as a residence and apothecary shop, and first became a bookstore in 1828. The building is a designated site on Boston's Freedom Trail ...
Jordan Marsh (officially Jordan Marsh & Company) was an American department store chain that was headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and operated throughout New England. It was founded by Eben Dyer Jordan and Benjamin L. Marsh in 1841. The ownership of Jordan Marsh was transferred between several holding companies during its operation ...
October 9, 1960. Faneuil Hall (/ ˈfænjəl / or / ˈfænəl /; previously / ˈfʌnəl /) is a marketplace and meeting hall located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts. Opened in 1742, [2] it was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain.
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.
Quincy Market is a historic building near Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It was constructed between 1824 and 1826 and named in honor of mayor Josiah Quincy, who organized its construction without any tax or debt. The market is a designated National Historic Landmark and a designated Boston Landmark in 1996, significant as one ...
Fowler, Dick & Walker, later known as Fowler's, was a chain of department stores, also called The Boston Store. [1] [2] They started business as a very small dry goods store in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1879, [3] occupying space in another establishment at 120 South Main Street. The founders were George Fowler, Alexander Dick and Gilbert ...
jfklibrary.org. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), the 35th president of the United States (1961–1963). It is located on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, next to the University of Massachusetts at Boston ...