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Filene's (/ f aɪ ˈ l iː n z /, originally William Filene & Sons Co.) was an American department store chain; it was founded by William Filene in 1881. The success of the original full-line store in Boston, Massachusetts , was supplemented by the foundation of its off-price sister store Filene's Basement in 1908.
Edward Albert Filene (September 3, 1860 – September 26, 1937) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is best known for building the Filene's department store chain and for his decisive role in pioneering credit unions across the United States.
Filene's Department Store, a department store in Boston, Massachusetts; Abraham Lincoln Filene (1865–1957), American businessman and philanthropist; Catherine Filene Shouse (1896–1994), American researcher and philanthropist; Edward Filene (1860–1937), American businessman and philanthropist; SS Edward A. Filene, an American liberty ship
Filene's Department Store was a department store building at 426 Washington Street in Downtown Crossing, Boston, Massachusetts. It was the flagship store of the Filene's department store chain. The building has been renovated and now serves as the offices for Havas and Arnold Worldwide .
Louis Edward Kirstein (June 9, 1867 – December 10, 1942) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the chairman of Filene's, a Boston-based department store.
Filene's Basement, also called The Basement, was a Massachusetts-based chain of department stores which was owned by Retail Ventures, Inc. until April 2009 when it was sold to Syms. The oldest off-price retailer in the United States , Filene's Basement focused on high-end goods and was known for its distinctive, low-technology automatic ...
In 1958, he was named president of Filene's where he served until 1964, chairman until 1965, and chairman of its finance committee until 1982. [2] In 1989, he was founder of the Harvard Community Health Plan (now Harvard Pilgrim Health Care). [2] Lazarus served on the Harvard University board of overseers and was the director of the alumni ...
Filene's expanded in size to 186,000 sq ft (17,300 m 2) in 1980 with the addition of a third floor, while the mall's Bloomingdale's home store added its own third floor and was reconfigured to include a men's department to complement a women's store it had opened across the street in 1978 at the Chestnut Hill Shopping Center.