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Wanamaker's from South Penn Square The second Wanamaker's at 770 Broadway, NYC Innovation and "firsts" marked Wanamaker's. The store was the first department store with electrical illumination (1878), first store with a telephone (1879), and the first store to install pneumatic tubes to transport cash and documents (1880).
770 Broadway was built between 1903 and 1907 and was designed by Daniel Burnham as an annex to the original Wanamaker's department store in New York, which was across 9th Street to the north. [8] The two buildings were connected by a sky bridge, dubbed the "Bridge of Progress", as well as a tunnel under 9th Street.
Rodman Wanamaker sponsored Dixon, who named the project "the Rodman Wanamaker Expeditions to the Indians". Dixon was the "educational director" (essentially a public relations worker) of Philadelphia department store Wanamaker's. Wanamaker's had been founded in 1876 by Rodman's father John Wanamaker. By the turn of the century, it had grown ...
The art deco tower, designed by architect John Torrey Windrim as an annex for Wanamaker's department store, was completed in 1932. Wanamaker's Men's Store opened in the first seven floors of the building, which is located a block from Wanamaker's main store, and was intended to rival European department stores with its size and selection.
In cases such as Wanamaker v. Weaver (1903) department stores sued husbands to force them to pay their wives' spending debts (pp. 123–134). By the 1920s, financiers (Goldman, Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Paul Mazur) turned the large stores into even larger chains and corporations though mergers and acquisitions. (pp. 263–292).
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Prominent South Florida architect Addison Mizner built La Querida in 1923 at a cost reported to be $50,000 for Rodman Wanamaker of Philadelphia, heir to the Wanamaker's Department Store fortune. [2] Constructed in the Mediterranean Revival style, La Querida is located at 1095 N. Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach. [1]
A city of Topeka building interior permit was issued to The HomeGoods chain of home furnishing stores at Wanamaker Square, 1900 S.W. Wanamaker Road.