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Peck & Peck was a New York City-based retailer of private label women's wear prominently located at 581 Fifth Avenue. [1]Peck & Peck was known for its classic clothes. Like Bonwit Teller and B. Altman and Company's post–World War II fashions, Peck & Peck personified and flourished in the pre-hippie era in New York [2] when WASP fashion ruled stores and fashion magazines.
It was the first big Fifth Avenue store above 34th Street. The store closed in 1977. [ 7 ] A 280,000-square-foot (26,000 m 2 ) building st 19th and Broadway, built in 1868-1877 as Arnold Constable Dry Goods Store, later became its flagship, and of W. & J. Sloane , another subsidiary of City Stores .
Henri Bendel, Inc. (pronounced BEN-del), established in 1895, [3] was a women's department store based in New York City which in its later history sold women's handbags, jewelry, luxury fashion accessories, home fragrances, chocolate and gifts. [4] Its New York City store was located at 10 West 57th street.
B. Altman and Company was a luxury department store and chain, founded in 1865 in New York City, New York, by Benjamin Altman. Its flagship store, the B. Altman and Company Building at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan , operated from 1906 until the company closed the store at the end of 1989. [ 1 ]
The Bonwit Teller's flagship uptown building at Fifth Avenue and 56th Street, originally known as Stewart & Company, was a women's clothing store in the "new luxury retailing district", [1] designed by Whitney Warren and Charles Wetmore, [2] and opened on October 16, 1929, with Eleanor Roosevelt in attendance.
Charles Anson Bond also sold his interests in the 1920s. Bond Stores, Inc. was organized in Maryland on March 19, 1937, by the consolidation of Bond Clothing Company, a Maryland corporation, and its subsidiary, Bond Stores, Inc. The principal executive offices of the corporation were located at 261 Fifth Avenue in New York City. [1]
New York City residence of A. T. Stewart, corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. In 1869 and 1870 A. T. Stewart built the first of the grand Fifth Avenue palaces, on the northwest corner of 34th Street, across from the doyenne of New York society, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor. [15] His architect, as for the store, was John Kellum.
Broadstreet's was a clothing business originally located at 576 -578 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Harry Ostrove started a men's store called Broadstreet's around the time of World War I. By the 1920's, it had grown into a chain of three or four stores; it was sold in 1928, although Mr. Ostrove's father remained as president until 1937. [1]