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Bonwit Teller & Co. was an American luxury department store in New York City, founded by Paul Bonwit in 1895 at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street, and later a chain of department stores. In 1897, Edmund D. Teller was admitted to the partnership and the store moved to 23rd Street , east of Sixth Avenue.
Though little remembered today, the wholesale division sold merchandise in bulk to smaller merchants throughout the central and western United States and at that time did six times the sales volume of the local retail store. Chicago's location at the nexus of the country's railroads and Great Lakes shipping made it the center of the dry goods ...
The Marshall Field and Company Building is a National Historic Landmark retail building on State Street in Chicago, Illinois.Now housing Macy's State Street, the Beaux-Arts and Commercial style complex was designed by architect Daniel Burnham and built in two stages—north end in 1901–02 (including columned entrance) and south end in 1905–06.
United States historic place Loop Retail Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district State Street in 1907 Show map of Chicago metropolitan area Show map of Illinois Show map of the United States Location Chicago, Illinois Coordinates 41°53′N 87°38′W / 41.883°N 87.633°W / 41.883; -87.633 Area 26 acres (11 ha) Built 1871 Architect ...
The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building in downtown Chicago, Illinois.When it opened in 1930, it was the world's largest building, with 4 million square feet (372,000 m 2) of floor space.
In 2022, Century 21 surrendered its original Bay Ridge location. [23] In May 2022, Century 21 announced it would reopen the lower Manhattan store in the spring of 2023. [24] In February 2023, Century 21 announced an April 2023 reopening date for the downtown New York City flagship.
S. Klein On The Square, or simply S. Klein, was a popular-priced department store chain based in New York City. The flagship stores (a main building and a women's fashion building) were located along Union Square East in Manhattan ; this location would combine with the 1920s idiomatic catch phrase "on the square" (meaning "honest and straight ...
Pedestrianized area in Times Square, New York City. In the mid-2010s, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg worked during his final term in office to create pedestrian malls in major tourist centers that had also been areas of severe automobile congestion such as Times Square [6] and Herald Square.