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A mezzanine level with a food court was added in 1987. The Cunningham Drug Store was demolished for a wing featuring a Mervyns in 1993, Montgomery Ward was also added. These additions brought the mall to 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m 2) of gross leasable area, making it the largest mall in Michigan north of Detroit. [6]
The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a mail-order business and later a department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The current Montgomery Ward Inc. is an online shopping and mail-order catalog retailer that started several years after the original Montgomery Ward shut down.
It was constructed in 1901-02 from a design by J.E. Clancy, a locally prominent architect. It served as library until 1971, when it became the Menominee Range Museum. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977. The building is a T-shaped Neoclassical structure with a hip roof, a raised uncut stone basement. and a stone facade.
Montgomery is a village in Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 322 at the 2020 census . The village is located within Camden Township .
Forty feet north of the Administration Building is the 2,000,000-square-foot (190,000 m 2) Mail Order House, also known as the Catalog House, that was the heart of Montgomery Ward's operations. Completed in 1908, the eight-story building was painted white and capped with a flat roof, with an interior that contained miles of chutes, conveyors ...
In 1932, the Duff Building was leased to Montgomery Wards, who purchased it in 1939. [2] To contain the Montgomery Wards store, the Duff building was combined with the Grow Block and a third building to create more space. Montgomery Wards remained in the building until the early 1980s. It was rehabilitated in 1983. [2]
[5] [9] Plans were also made to divide the former Montgomery Ward space into smaller shops. [10] Eventually, occupancy at Universal Mall rebounded to 75%, [5] although by 2007 it had declined to 48% (in part due to the closure of Mervyns' Michigan operations in 2006). [11]
At the time of opening in September 1959, the Montgomery Ward store at Wonderland Center was the largest in the chain. [2] One month later, Federal's opened for business as well. The store was the 31st in that chain. [3] In 1983, Schostak converted Wonderland from an open-air complex to an enclosed shopping mall.