This is a list of defunct department stores of the United States, from small-town one-unit stores to mega-chains, which have disappeared over the past 100 years. Many closed, while others were sold or merged with other

department stores A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic appea ...

Department stores merged with Federated and May

Many United States department

store chain A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management and standardized business practices. They have come to dominate the retail and dining markets and many service categories, in many pa ...

s and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate

mergers and acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization. As an aspect ...

that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores becoming units of Macy's, Inc. The following is a list of the affected stores, including some local and regional stores that earlier had been absorbed into chains that became part of Federated, May, or Macy's. * Abraham & Straus ( Macy's in 1995) ** D. M. Read (Macy's in 1990) *

Bamberger's Bamberger's was a department store chain with branches primarily in New Jersey and other locations in Delaware, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania. The chain was headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. History 1892–1912 Newark was known for ma ...

(Macy's in 1986) * The Bon Marché (Macy's in 2005) **

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( The Bon Marché in 1923) * Bullock's (Macy's in 1996) ** Bullocks Wilshire * Burdines (Macy's in 2005) **

Maas Brothers Maas Brothers was a leading Tampa, Florida department store founded by Abe and Isaac Maas in 1886 that grew from a small store to a chain of 39 stores throughout the Gulf Coast of Florida. The Maas Brothers brand went defunct in 1991 when it wa ...

Carter Hawley Hale Stores Broadway Stores, Inc., was an American retailer based in Southern California. Known through its history as Carter Hawley Hale Stores and Broadway Hale Stores over time, it acquired other retail store chains in regions outside its California home b ...

(merged into Macy's West 1996) ** The Broadway ( Southern California). Headquartered in Los Angeles. ** Emporium-Capwell (

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) *** Capwell's ( East Bay) *** The Emporium ( San Francisco and South Bay, North Bay) **

Hale Bros. Hale's or Hale Bros., was a department store based in Sacramento with branches throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1880 Prentis Cobb Hale and his two brothers opened the Criterion store in Downtown Sacramento, and in 1881 they renamed it Hal ...

(San Francisco and Sacramento) ** Weinstock's (Sacramento and Reno) * Davison's (Macy's in 1986) * The F & R Lazarus and Co. (Macy's in 2005) **

Shillito's John Shillito & Co. (commonly known as Shillito's) was Cincinnati's first department store. In 1817 John Shillito (November 1808-September 1879) arrived in Cincinnati (from Greensburg, Pennsylvania). The nine-year-old lad was soon working for th ...

Rike Kumler Co. The Rike-Kumler Company (commonly known as Rike's) was an American department store in Dayton, Ohio. In 1959, Rike's became part of the Federated Department Stores conglomerate. In 1982, Federated merged Rike's with its Cincinnati unit, Shillito ...

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Rike's The Rike-Kumler Company (commonly known as Rike's) was an American department store in Dayton, Ohio. In 1959, Rike's became part of the Federated Department Stores conglomerate. In 1982, Federated merged Rike's with its Cincinnati unit, Shillito ...

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William H. Block Co. The William H. Block Company was a department store chain in Indianapolis and other cities in Indiana. It was founded in 1874 by Herman Wilhelm Bloch, an immigrant from Austria-Hungary who had Americanized his name to William H. Block. The main ...

(Blocks) ** Joseph Horne Co. ( Horne's) ** Herpolsheimer's *

Famous-Barr The Famous-Barr Co. (originally Famous and Barr Co.) was a division of Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores). Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, in the Railway Exchange Building, it was the flagship store of The May Department Sto ...

(Macy's in 2006) **

The Famous Clothing Store The Famous-Barr Co. (originally Famous and Barr Co.) was a division of Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores). Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, in the Railway Exchange Building, it was the flagship store of The May Department Sto ...

* Filene's (Macy's in 2006) ** Filene's Basement (separated from Filene's in 1988, closed in 2011) ** G. Fox & Co. ** B. Peck & Co. (sold to Gamble-Skogmo, Inc.) **

Steiger's Steiger's was a department store company of New England in the 19th and 20th centuries. Founded in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1896, its flagship store for much of the company's history was in Springfield, Massachusetts. At the time of its purchase ...

Foley's Foley's was a chain of department stores owned by May Department Stores and headquartered in Downtown Houston, Texas. On August 30, 2005, the division was dissolved and operation of the stores was assumed by Federated's Macy's West and Macy's Sout ...

(Macy's in 2006) ** May-Daniels & Fisher *** The Denver Dry Goods Company ** Sanger-Harris ***

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** * Gold Circle (discount store chain) Founded in 1967 by Federated; merged into Richway in 1988 and later dismantled during 1990 bankruptcy *

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(discount store chain for electronics, appliances, home building supply, sporting goods, photography, housewares) Founded in 1970 - closed in 1981, 6 Florida locations - 3 Miami, Plantation, Tampa and Orlando. *

Goldwater's Goldwater's Department Store was a department store chain based in Phoenix, Arizona. History Michael Goldwater, the grandfather of U.S. Senator and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, established a trading post in 1860 in Gila City, Ari ...

Goldsmith's Goldsmith's was a department store founded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1870 by German immigrant brothers Jacob and Isaac Goldsmith. It grew into a chain largely located in the Memphis metropolitan area, until 2005, when the nameplate was eliminated ...

Merged into Rich's in mid-1980s. (Macy's in 2005) * Hecht's (Macy's in 2006) ** Castner Knott (Hecht's in 1998) ** Miller & Rhoads (Hecht's in 1990) **

Strawbridge's Strawbridge's, formerly Strawbridge & Clothier, was a department store in the northeastern United States, with stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The Center City Philadelphia flagship store was, in its day, a gracious urban emporiu ...

(Macy's in 2006) ** Thalhimers (Hecht's in 1990) ** Woodward & Lothrop *

I. Magnin I. Magnin & Company was a San Francisco, California-based high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store. Over the course of its existence, it expanded across the West into Southern California and the adjoining states of Arizona, Oregon, ...

, owned by Federated 1965-1988 and

R.H. Macy Co. Macy's, Inc. (originally Federated Department Stores, Inc.) is an American conglomerate holding company. Upon its establishment, Federated held ownership of the regional department store chains Abraham & Straus, Lazarus, Filene's, and Shillito ...

1988–1994; most stores closed 1988–1993, remainder of stores converted to Macy's West and Bullock's or sold to Saks Fifth Avenue. Union Square, San Francisco location eventually incorporated into adjacent Macy's. *

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or Wanamaker's ( Philadelphia and New York City flagship stores), sold to Carter Hawley Hale in 1979, then Washington, DC-based Woodward & Lothrop owned by

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; sold to May Company in 1995; merged with Federated Department Stores in 2005 (now known as Macy's, Inc.) * The Jones Store (Macy's in 2006) * Jordan Marsh (Macy's in 1996) * Kaufmann's (Offices merged with Filene's in 2002, Macy's in 2006) ** May Company Ohio ***

O'Neil's (department store) The M. O'Neil Co. was a regional department store chain based in Akron, Ohio, United States. O'Neil's dominated the Akron and Canton retail markets. Founded in 1877, the store grew to several locations in northeastern Ohio. By the late 1980's, it w ...

** Sibley's ** Strouss-Hirshberg *

L.S. Ayres L. S. Ayres and Company was a department store based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and founded in 1872 by Lyman S. Ayres. Over the years its Indianapolis flagship store, which opened in 1905 and was later enlarged, became known for its women's fash ...

(Macy's in 2006) ** Stewart's ** H. & S. Pogue Company * Liberty House (Macy's in 2001) * Marshall Field's (Macy's in 2006) ** Dayton's ( Marshall Field's in 2001) **

Frederick & Nelson Frederick & Nelson was a department store chain in the northwestern United States, based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1891 as a furniture store, it later expanded to sell other types of merchandise. The company was acquired by Marshall Fiel ...

(defunct in 1992) *** The Crescent (department store) (defunct in 1992) ***

Lipman's Lipman's was a department store chain based in Portland, Oregon. The company was originally known as Lipman-Wolfe & Company, named after the two founding partners, Adolphe Wolfe and his uncle, Soloman Lipman. It is now defunct. The 1912 buildin ...

Halle Brothers Co. Halle Brothers Co., commonly referred to as Halle's, was a department store chain based in Cleveland, Ohio. During most of its 91-year history, Halle's focused on higher-end merchandise which it combined with personal service. The company was th ...

** Hudson's (Marshall Field's in 2001) ** J.B. Ivey & Co. * Meier & Frank (Macy's in 2006) **

Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (typically referred to as ZCMI) was an American department store chain. It was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 9, 1868 by Brigham Young. For many years it used the slogan, "America's First De ...

( Meier & Frank in 2001) * Rich's (Macy's in 2005) * Robinsons-May (Macy's in 2006) ** May Company California (Robinsons-May in 1993) ***

Hamburger's May Company California was a chain of department stores operating in Southern California and Nevada, with headquarters in North Hollywood, California. It was a subsidiary of May Department Stores and merged with May's other Southern California s ...

J. W. Robinson's J. W. Robinson Co., ''Robinson's'', was a chain of department stores operating in the Southern California and Arizona area, previously with headquarters in Los Angeles, California. History Joseph Winchester Robinson was a merchant from Waltham, ...

(Robinsons-May in 1993) *

(May in 1994) * Stern's (Macy's in 2001) ** Gertz

Other department stores

Discount Stores

Ames. Bradlees was part of the Stop ‘n Shop Companies which was a grocery chain also based in Mass. While there were Bradlees discount stores in the mid Atlantic region, with a buying office on Broadway in the garment center district in NYC; the grocery stores were only in the New England area. Caldor, Service Merchandise, Venture, Woolco, and Zayre were national discount stores that closed due to changes in shopping places and patterns, and/or large debt from

National and regional

* Acorn Stores ( Minneapolis, Minnesota) *

Ames Department Stores Inc. Ames Department Stores Inc. was an American chain of discount stores based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States. The company was founded in 1958 with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and at its peak operated 700 stores in 20 states, i ...

(based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut) * Arlan's Department Store (Mid-Atlantic and Midwest) *

Ayr-Way L. S. Ayres and Company was a department store based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and founded in 1872 by Lyman S. Ayres. Over the years its Indianapolis flagship store, which opened in 1905 and was later enlarged, became known for its women's fas ...

(Midwest/Great Lakes States-Based out of Indianapolis) Was discount chain of L.S. Ayres & Co. that eventually became Target Stores. *

(Indianapolis-Midwest/ Great Lakes states) Was eventually sold to May Department Stores and finally became Macy's. * The Bon-Ton and its subsidiaries:

Bergner's P.A. Bergner & Co. (also known as Bergner's) was an upscale Midwestern department store established in 1889. The chain is now an online retailer operated by BrandX.com, Inc. The flagship store was located in Peoria, Illinois at The Shoppes at Gr ...

, Boston Store (Wisconsin), Carson's, Elder-Beerman, Herberger's and Younkers. * Bradlees (based in Boston, Massachusetts) ( New England, Mid-Atlantic) *

Britt's Department Store J. J. Newberry's was an American five and dime store chain in the 20th century. It was founded in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1911 by John Josiah Newberry (1877–1954). J. J. Newberry learned the variety store business by workin ...

(national) *

E. J. Korvette E. J. Korvette, also known as Korvettes, was an American chain of discount department stores, founded in 1948 in New York City. It was one of the first department stores to challenge the suggested retail price provisions of anti-discounting sta ...

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Fisher's Big Wheel Fishers Big Wheel, sometimes known as just Big Wheel, was a discount department store chain based in New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States. The company operated stores under the Fisher's Big Wheel and Buy Smart names. At its peak, the chain comp ...

(Northeast & Midwest) Discount Department Stores based out of metro Pittsburgh, PA. *

Fred's Fred's Inc. (stylized ''FRED'S'') was a retail store chain headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, operating in 15 states in the southeastern United States. As of June, 2019 Fred's operated 396 locations, of which 155 are pharmacies, and the remain ...

(Southeast) *

F.W. Woolworth Company The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store. It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, se ...

G. E. M. Membership Department Stores G. E. M. Membership Department Stores was a chain of discount stores, in the US and Canada. Their first location opened in Denver in 1956. GEM offered something different: membership. The qualifications included government-, religious- and school ...

(national/ Ontario, Canada; also known as G.E.X. and G.E.S.) * Gibson's Discount Center, based in Texas but had spread to many other states at its peak * W. T. Grant *

Hills Department Stores Hills was a discount department store chain based in Canton, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, Ohio and existed until 1999 when it was acquired by Ames. Most stores were located in Ohio, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania and We ...

(National) Was bought out by Ames Department Stores. * Howard Brothers Discount Stores *

Jack's Jack's Family Restaurants, LP (Trade name, doing business as Jack's) is an American fast food restaurant chain, headquartered and based in Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham, and is owned by AEA Investors. Restaurants feature sit-down dining, dr ...

(operated by Penn-Daniels and based in

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with locations in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri) *

Jamesway Jamesway Corporation, more commonly known as Jamesway, was a chain of Discount store, discount department stores based in Secaucus, New Jersey. It was founded in 1961 with a single store in Jamestown, New York, ultimately growing into a chain tha ...

(Mid-Atlantic) * S.H. Kress & Co., Puerto Rico subsidiary

Tiendas Kress S. H. Kress & Co. was the trading name of a chain of five and dime retail department stores in the United States established by Samuel Henry Kress. It operated from 1896 to 1981. In the first half of the 20th century, there were Kress stores wi ...

lives on, having survived parent company * Leggett (Mid-Atlantic), acquired by Belk in 1997 * Lord & Taylor, the oldest department store chain in the United States, founded in 1826 in New York City, filed for

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on August 2, 2020. On August 27, 2020, the company stated it would be liquidating all 38 locations by December 1, 2020. * McCrory Stores (national) *

Mervyn's Mervyn's was an American middle-scale department store chain based in Hayward, California, and founded by Mervin G. Morris (1920–2021). It carried national brands of clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, ...

(primarily western U.S. but also in a few midwestern and southern U.S. states) * Montgomery Ward (national - Chicago) *

Neisner's Neisner's or Neisner Brothers was a chain of variety stores in North America. History The brothers Abraham and Joseph Neisner opened their first variety store in Rochester, New York, in 1911. They incorporated the company in New York in 1916, by ...

Odd Job Stores, Inc. Odd means unpaired, occasional, strange or unusual, or a person who is viewed as eccentric. Odd may also refer to: Acronym * ODD (Text Encoding Initiative) ("One Document Does it all"), an abstracted literate-programming format for describing ...

(located in the northeast and midwestern U.S.), acquired by Amazing Savings in 2003 and went bankrupt in 2005 *

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Dollar General Dollar General Corporation is an American chain of variety stores headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. As of April 11, 2022, Dollar General operates 18,216 stores in the continental United States. The company began in 1939 as a family-own ...

in 1983 and rebranded *

Schultz's Family Stores H. C. Prange Co., sometimes shortened to Prange's, was an American department store chain begun by H. C. Prange in 1887 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. At its peak, it operated stores in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan. It also opera ...

, began as Schultz Bros. Co., headquartered in

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, 77 total stores in 1974 in the Upper Midwest, bankrupt and bought by

Prange Way H. C. Prange Co., sometimes shortened to Prange's, was an American department store chain begun by H. C. Prange in 1887 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. At its peak, it operated stores in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan. It also operated d ...

in 1989 * Sears Roebuck, still operating a few locations. * Shoppers Fair *

Steve & Barry's Steve & Barry's was an American retail clothing chain, featuring casual clothing, footwear and accessories. By mid-2008, the chain operated 276 stores in 39 states. The company was headquartered in Port Washington, New York. The company liquidate ...

Syms Syms Corp (styled as SYMS) was an off-price retail clothing store chain, founded by Sy Syms in 1958. Its headquarters was in Secaucus, New Jersey, where it became a public company, traded on the New York Stock Exchange (SYM) in 1983. The company a ...

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Two Guys Two Guys from Harrison (later shortened to Two Guys) is a former discount store chain founded in 1946 by brothers Herbert and Sidney Hubschman in Harrison, New Jersey, originally selling major appliances such as televisions. The chain acquired ...

(Mid-Atlantic) * Value City (Nationwide) *

Venture Stores Venture Stores, Inc. was a chain of retail stores aimed at the discount department-store market. John Geisse, formerly of Target Stores, and May Department Stores' executive vice president, Dave Babcock, founded the chain in 1968. Venture Store ...

(National) Based out of St Louis, MO metro area. * Woolco, founded by the F.W. Woolworth Company as a full-line discount department store * Zayre ( New England, Mid-Atlantic, Chicago, Florida, Georgia)

Alabama

Gayfer's Gayfer's was a regional department store chain in the southern United States. Based in Mobile, Alabama, the chain of stores operated from 1879 until 1998 when it was taken over by Dillard's. History C.J. Gayfer migrated to Mobile, Alabama, from ...

( Mobile) * Loveman's ( Birmingham) * Mazer's (Birmingham) Opened in 1932, closed in 2011. * Parisian (Birmingham), sold to Belk 2006, renamed September 2007. Five stores sold to The Bon-Ton, converted to the Carson Pirie Scott name. * Pizitz (Birmingham), 13-store Alabama chain, sold to McRae's 1987, renamed later that year *

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( Florence) Became a division of

Dunlap's Dunlaps, based in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, was a family-owned chain of department stores in the central and southern United States catering to most classes depending on the location. The chain operated under the trade names of Dunlaps, Stripling ...

that closed in 2007 after sale of store chain by Rogers family.

Alaska

* Northern Commercial (Anchorage, Fairbanks, Kenai)

Arizona

* Babbit's ( Flagstaff) *

Broadway Southwest The Broadway was a mid-level department store chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1896 by English-born Arthur Letts Sr., and named after what was once the city's main shopping street, the Broadway became a dominant reta ...

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Diamond's Diamond's was a department store chain headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Originally named The Boston Store, it was founded in 1897 by Nathan and Issac Diamond, Jewish immigrants who had earlier begun a dry-goods mercantile in El Paso, it was rena ...

( Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Denver and Las Vegas), was part of

Dayton Hudson Target Corporation (doing business as Target and stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American big box department store chain headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the seventh largest retailer in the United States, and a compo ...

(Phoenix) * Goldwyn's (Tucson) * Levy's ( Tucson) * Myerson's White House (Tucson) * Sacanni's (Tucson) * Yellow Front Stores

Arkansas

MM Cohn The M.M. Cohn Company, more popularly known simply as MM Cohn, was a regional specialty department store chain in Arkansas, based in Little Rock. Independently operated from its opening until 1989, the chain was purchased by The Dunlap Company of ...

( Little Rock), 2007

California

The Akron Akron Stores or The Akron was a Southern California-based imported goods and home decorating department store retail chain established in 1948 and was known to carry unusual merchandise, mostly imports. The chain had over 24 stores throughout Sout ...

(Los Angeles), a Southern California-based "eclectic" department store chain that had specialized in carrying imported goods and unusual items such as parking meters and live Mexican monkeys, and which had stores as far north as San Francisco and far south as San Diego before it was forced to close its stores in 1985Alternate Link
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Blackstone's Department Store Blackstones or Blackstone's may refer to: * The Blackstones, UK-based reggae vocal trio active since the mid-1970s * Blackstones F.C., non-league football club from Stamford, England * Blackstone's commentaries, Blackstone's ''Commentaries'', Comme ...

* Blum's ( San Jose), originally M. Blum & Co., established 1907; store appears to have closed shortly after death of owner and founder in 1940Link
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Brock's Gottschalks (former NYSE ticker symbol GOT) was a middle-tier American department store that operated 58 department stores and three specialty apparel stores in six western states (California, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada); some ...

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), started in 1924 and sold to Gottschalks in 1987 * Breuner's * Buffum's * Bullock's (Los Angeles), converted to Macy's * Bullocks Wilshire (Los Angeles), converted to

, then Macy's, and today it is Southwestern University School of Law. *

Butler Brothers Butler Brothers was a retailer and wholesale supplier based in Chicago. It was founded in 1877 as a mail-order company by Charles Hamblet Butler, George Henry Butler, George H. Butler and Edward Burgess Butler. History In the 1920s, Butler Brothe ...

(California) * Carithers's ( Petaluma), closed in 1986 *

H.C. Capwell Co. The Emporium, from 1980 to 1995 Emporium-Capwell, was a mid-line department store chain headquartered in San Francisco, California, which operated for 100 years—from 1896 to 1996. The flagship location on San Francisco's Market Street was a des ...

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City of Paris (Los Angeles) City of Paris (originally S. Lazard & Co.) was a dry goods store and eventually Los Angeles' first department store, operating from the 1850s through 1897, first as Lazard & Kremer Co., then Lazard & Wolfskill Co., then S. Lazard & Co., then with ...

, no relation to the San Francisco store or to Ville de Paris (Los Angeles), 1850s–1897 * Coulter's * Crowley's ( Vallejo) * Daly's ( Eureka), closed in 1995, with four Northern California stores, after operating for exactly 100 years * Desmond's, founded 1862, became a large Southland-wide chain, closed 1970s * Disco Department Stores (San Rafael), chain of discount stores located in Northern California and Northern Nevada, first store was opened in San Rafael in 1956 as Marin Associated Consumers by co-founder William L. Simmons, stores were later renamed MAC Disco Mart and then MAC Disco Discount Department Stores,(Page 13)Alternate Link
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Fedco Federal Employees' Distributing Company, known as Fedco, was a membership department store chain that operated in Southern California from 1948 to 1999. History Beginning The chain was unusual in that it was a nonprofit consumers' cooperative. ...

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Fifth Street Store The Fifth Street Store was a major department store in Los Angeles opened in 1905. Name The official name of the company and store changed many times: *1905–1909: Steele, Faris, & Walker Co. - the official company name and name under which the ...

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via ProQuest. * Frink's (Pasadena), founded by Jose and Lola Frink in the early twentieth century, but closed by mid-century * Gemco * Globe Department Store, South Broadway between 51st–52nd, South Los Angeles (1920s-1930s) * Gottschalks, bankrupt March 31, 2009, which closed all of the stores. A few former Gottschalks stores were replaced as Macy's and

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in the Pacific region. There were plans to reopen stores in

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and Oakhurst in spring 2011, but the deal ultimately fell through. * GET (Government Employees Together) Lakeshore Plaza, San Francisco, discount chain, a membership retailer open only to employees of local, state, and federal government agencies. * Grodin's (San Francisco Bay Area), a 36-unit chain of men's and women's specialty stores, closed in January 1987. * Gump's (San Francisco) closed 2018 * Haggarty's, Los Angeles-based chain of junior department stores for apparel, 1906–1970 *

Hale's Hale's or Hale Bros., was a department store based in Sacramento with branches throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1880 Prentis Cobb Hale and his two brothers opened the Criterion store in Downtown Sacramento, and in 1881 they renamed it Ha ...

(Hale Brothers) (Sacramento/San Francisco), merged with Broadway in 1970 to form the Broadway-Hale holding company while keeping its name on its stores;Alternate Link
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via ProQuest. merged into The Emporium under Carter, Hawley & Hale. * A. Hamburger & Sons ( Los Angeles), founded in 1881, purchased by May Co. 1923 and renamed May Company CaliforniaAlternate Link
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Harris Department Store The Harris Company was a retail corporation, based in San Bernardino, California, that operated a chain of department stores named Harris', all in Southern California. Philip, Arthur, and Herman Harris - nephews of founder Leopold Harris of what ...

, based in San Bernardino, absorbed by Gottschalks *

Harris & Frank Harris & Frank was a clothing retailer and major chain in the history of retail in Southern California, which at its peak had around 40 stores across Southern California and in neighboring states and regions. Its history dates back to a clothing ...

* Hart's Department Store ( San Jose) * Henshey's (Santa Monica), finally closed in 1992 after being in business since 1925 * Hilson's ( Martinez), three locations closed 2001 * Hink's (

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), also known as J.F. Hink & Son, closed in 1985 * Hinshaw's (

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and Whittier), both stores were closed in 1992 *

Kahn's Kahn's is an American meat processing and distribution company established in Cincinnati, Ohio. History Originally from Albersweiler in Germany's Rhenish Palatinate, 45-year-old Elias Kahn immigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, in 1882 ...

(

), founded by Israel Kahn in 1879, acquired by newly formed B. F. Schlesinger & Sons in 1925,Alternate Link
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via ProQuest. B.F. Schlesinger & Sons was renamed Western Department Stores in 1941, Kahn was rebranded Rhodes in 1960Alternate Link
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. * S. Lazard & Co. * Levee's ( Vallejo), closed in the early 1980s * Liberty House (became Macy's) *

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(San Francisco), liquidated when its parent company, Beck Industries, filed for bankruptcy in 1970Alternate Link
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via ProQuest. *

(San Francisco), converted to Macy's *

Joseph Magnin Co. The Joseph Magnin Company was a high-end specialty department store founded in San Francisco, California, by Joseph Magnin, 4th son of Isaac Magnin founder of the I. Magnin department store. Joseph Magnin Co. and I. Magnin Co. were rivals. Histo ...

, closed 1984 *

Marston's Marston's plc is a British pub and hotel operator. Founded by John Marston in 1834, it is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Marston's disposed of its brewing operations in 2020, selling the assets to a newly formed joint venture with the Ca ...

San Diego, 3 branches, purchased by The Broadway in the 1960s *

Mattei Bros. Mattei may refer to: * Mattei (surname) * Mattei, California * Mattei family, noble Roman family * '' The Mattei Affair'' (Italian: ''Il Caso Mattei''), a 1972 film * Mattei sarcophagus I, known as Mattei I * Electrohomeopathy, also Mattei can ...

( Petaluma) – closed in 1995 * May Company (Los Angeles), merged with Robinsons and became Robinsons-May, then Macy's *

of California, operated stores in western US. Went bankrupt December 2008 * Milliron's, see

, above *

Nahas Nahas (pronounced Nay-haz) was a chain of department stores owned by A. S Nahas, operating in Greater Los Angeles, carrying clothing, household goods and electronics. They also acquired Rathbun's department store at 5311 Lankershim Blvd. in North ...

, 1953–early 1980s junior department stores with clothing and home goods, mostly in Los Angeles County. Purchased and absorbed independent department stores Rathbun's North Hollywood, Trenwiths Santa Barbara and Butler Bros. Van Nuys. * F. C. Nash & Co. –

Nash's Nash's (F. C. Nash & Co.) was a Pasadena, California Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old P ...

(Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be closed, main store destroyed in a daytime fire on May 11, 1976Alternate Link
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via ProQuest. * O'Connor, Moffat & Co., purchased by Macy's 1945,Alternate Link
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via ProQuest. * Phelps-Terkel junior department store for apparel, founded 1923, survived in various forms until 1992 * Pic 'N' Save, became Big Lots * Prager's ( San Francisco), closed in 1921 after 25 years in business *

Rankin's Rankin's was a department store at 117 West Fourth Street at Sycamore in downtown Santa Ana, California. The Rankin Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on its own and also as a contributing property of the Downtown Santa ...

, Downtown Santa Ana and

Orangefair Center Orangefair Marketplace is a community shopping center in Fullerton, California which when built was one of the earliest large shopping centers in Orange County, California. along with Anaheim Plaza and Orange County Plaza. It is located at the sout ...

, Fullerton * Rhodes ( Sacramento and Central Valley), became Liberty House *

Robert's Robert's was a department store based in Long Beach, California. The chain began when Morris Burman opened the first store in East Los Angeles. In 1950, Burman bought an existing store in North Long Beach at 5350 Long Beach Blvd., and opened it a ...

, based in Long Beach, which grew to nine stores before closing in the 1990s * J.W. Robinson ( Los Angeles), converted to Robinsons, then merged with May Company to become Robinsons-May, then eventually became Macy's * Rosenberg's (

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), located on Third Street; closed in 1998; now a

Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller. It is a Fortune 1000 company and the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. As of July 7, 2020, the company operates 614 retail stores across all 50 U. ...

Sage's Sage's Complete Markets was a privately held supermarket chain A chain is a serial assembly of connected pieces, called links, typically made of metal, with an overall character similar to that of a rope in that it is flexible and curved ...

Complete Shopping, one of the first full department stores that coined the name "super market," at Baseline and E Street in San Bernardino, later with stores in Riverside, Rialto, Colton and Redlands, confounded by Milton Ross Sage and C. C. Jenkins, 1937-1973 * Silverwoods *

Swelldom Swelldom was a large women's clothing store variously described as a "cloak and suit house" and a "department store", operating from 1906 until the 1970s in California. It had locations on Broadway (Los Angeles), Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles' s ...

, junior department stores for apparel, Los Angeles, 1906–1970s *

* Unimart (Los Angeles, San Diego), locations variously became

, Gemco, FedMart; was owned by Food Giant Markets Inc until it merged in 1967 with Vornado, the owner of

, which quickly converted Unimart stores to

. * Ville de Paris, Los Angeles 1893–1919 * Walker's, see

(original Los Angeles store, from which Walker's Long Beach spun off) and

Walker Scott Walker Scott, also Walker-Scott or Walker's, was a chain of department stores in San Diego and surrounding area from 1935 to 1986 and had eight branches at the time of its closure. It was founded by Ralf Marc (or R.M.) Walker and George A. Scott ...

(San Diego spinoff). *

Walker's (Long Beach) The Fifth Street Store was a major department store in Los Angeles opened in 1905. Name The official name of the company and store changed many times: *1905–1909: Steele, Faris, & Walker Co. - the official company name and name under which the ...

(San Diego), Solana Beach branch is now a HomeGoods store; founded as a branch of the

Walker's Department Store Walkers may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Walkers, one name for zombies in The Walking Dead (franchise) Literature * ''Walkers'' (novel), a 1980 horror novel by Gary Brandner Music * The Walkers (Danish band), a ...

of Los Angeles in 1935;Alternate Link
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via ProQuest.Alternate Link
via ProQuest. * Weinstein's (1041 Market Street San Francisco), founded by Isidor Weinstein, went bankrupt in 1968 * Weinstock's (Sacramento), founded in 1874 as the One-Price Store by David Lubin and his half brother Harris Weinstein, renamed Mechanics' Store the following year, later renamed The Weinstock Lubin Company, acquired by Hale Bros. 1949, eventually acquired by Federated in 1995 via various mergers of its parent company, stores eventually rebranded Macy's *

White Front White Front was a chain of discount department stores in California and the western United States from 1959 through the mid-1970s. The stores were noted for the architecture of their store fronts which was an enormous, sweeping archway with the st ...

* The White House (San Francisco), closed in 1965 * Whole Earth Access (

), last stores closed in 1998 * Wineman's (HQ in Ventura, Oxnard, then Huntington Park) *

Zody's Hartfield-Zodys was an American retail corporation begun in 1960. It operated the Hartfield chain of women's ready-to-wear apparel in the Los Angeles area, and starting in 1960, the Zodys chain of discount retail stores (1960–1986), which oper ...

(Los Angeles), bankrupt and locations were sold to Ralphs Grocery Stores in 1986

Colorado

( Denver) * The Denver Dry Goods Company, locations throughout the Front Range &

Denver Metro Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United S ...

Joslins Joslins Department Store began as J. Joslins Dry Goods Store, founded by John Jay Joslin in 1873; It was a direct competitor to The Denver Dry Goods Company which commenced operations in 1888. The downtown Joslins building in Denver, Colorado, ...

(Denver), converted to

Dillard's Dillard's, Inc. is an upscale American department store chain with approximately 282 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, the largest number of stores are located in Texas with 57 and Florida with 42. The ...

in 1998 * May D&F, with some of its stores purchased by Broadway Southwest *

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Connecticut

( Rocky Hill) * Arlan's Department Store ( Waterbury) * Caldor ( Norwalk) * The Edw. Malley Co., formerly the largest hometown department store in Downtown New Haven Store relocated during urban renewal in 1962 from Chapel Street to Church Street.

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and closure, 1981. * E.J. Korvettes (Downtown Hartford) * Feinson's (

Danbury Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately northeast of New York City. Danbury's population as of 2022 was 87,642. It is the seventh largest city in Connecticut. Danbury is nicknamed the "Hat City ...

), closed 2000 * G. Fox & Co. ( Hartford), ( Downtown Hartford) flagship closed and all branches merged into Filene's 1993, and most converted to Macy's 2006 * Grant's (central Connecticut, Stamford) *

Read's Department Stores Read's Department Stores was a Bridgeport, Connecticut-based retail chain founded in 1857 by D. M. Read. Known for its classy, upscale merchandise, the flagship store was once hailed as New England's largest department store. It expanded to seve ...

(

D.M. Read DM, Dm, dm, or D.M. may stand for: Academic titles and postnominals * Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a chivalric order * Doctor of Management, an academic management degree * Doctor of Medicine, an academic medical degree * Doct ...

) (

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), merged into Jordan Marsh *

Shartenberg's Department Store Shartenberg's Department Store was a six-floor department store located at 765-777 Chapel Street in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, designed in the neoclassical style. In 2007, it was ranked among the "landmark consumer paradises" of New Haven ...

(1915–1962), Downtown New Haven. Razed in 1964 as part of

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redevelopment plans. *

( Newington) * Shoppers Fair

Delaware

Almart Allied Stores was a department store chain in the United States. It was founded in the 1930s as part of a general consolidation in the retail sector by B. E. Puckett. See also Associated Dry Goods. It was the successor to Hahn's Department Stores ...

Bradlee's Bradlees Department Store, more commonly known as Bradlees, was a discount department store chain based in Braintree, Massachusetts, which operated primarily in the Northeastern United States. Bradlees sold various retail items in its stores, in ...

* Hess's (

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) *

or Wanamaker's ( Wilmington and suburbs), sold to Carter Hawley Hale in 1979, then Washington, DC-based Woodward & Lothrop owned by

; sold to May Company in 1995; merged with Federated Department Stores in 2005 (now known as Macy's, Inc.) * Montgomery Ward * Newark Department Store *

Strawbridge and Clothier Strawbridge's, formerly Strawbridge & Clothier, was a department store in the northeastern United States, with stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The Center City Philadelphia flagship store was, in its day, a gracious urban emporiu ...

Wilmington Dry Goods

District of Columbia

* Garfinckel's * Hecht's, converted to Macy's 2006 *

Jelleff's The Frank R. Jelleff Co., or more commonly Jelleff's was a Washington, D.C.-based retailer that specialized in women's apparel. History Jelleff's was founded March 1910, on F Street, N.W. in downtown Washington, D.C. Its founder, Frank R. Jellef ...

* S. Kann Sons Co. * Lansburgh's * Palais Royal, acquired by Woodward & Lothrop 1946 *

Raleigh Haberdasher Raleigh Haberdasher, more commonly called Raleigh's, was a high end, local men's and women's furnishings store based in Washington, D.C. History The first store opened on February 16, 1911, at 1109 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, in the Raleigh Hotel. M ...

, operated originally as a

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; expanded in later years to family fashions. Acquired by Hartmarx Corp. before closing. * Woodward & Lothrop, bankrupt and closed 1995 after briefly acquiring and operating John Wanamaker & Company ( Philadelphia)

Florida

Brown's Department Store Brown's Department Store was a chain of department stores in the United States, based in Dania Beach, Florida. The store's founder, Louis Brown was born in Grodno, Russia in 1886, Louis Brown immigrated to the United States in 1907 and went to wor ...

s (Dania Beach, Hollywood, Pompano Beach) * Burdines ( Miami), merged with Macy’s in 2005 * Cohen Brothers ( Jacksonville), purchased by May in 1959; renamed May-Cohen * Furchgott's ( Jacksonville) *

(Miami, Plantation, Tampa, Orlando) * Ivey's (Winter Park), purchased by

in 1990 * Jackson Byron's (later J. Byrons) ( Miami) * Jordan Marsh (Miami) * J.M. Fields (Pompano Beach) *

(

Tampa Tampa () is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the seat of Hillsborough County ...

), merged into Burdines in 1991 *

Maison Blanche Maison Blanche (''White House'' in French) was a department store in New Orleans, Louisiana, and later also a chain of department stores. It was founded in 1897 by Isidore Newman, an immigrant from Germany. Maison Blanche is perhaps best remem ...

* McRae's, sold to Belk in 2006 * Richard's, ( Miami, Hollywood) * Robinson's of Florida ( St. Petersburg) * Gayfers (

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) * Parisian, sold to Belk in 2007 * W. T. Grant (discount, Jacksonville) * Woolco ( Jacksonville, South Daytona and other locations) * Zayre (discount, Jacksonville and other locations)

Georgia

Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose The Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Company was a leading department store in Atlanta from 1866 until 1931, competing with Rich's. The original store was located on the east side of Whitehall St. (now Peachtree St. SW), south of Hunter St. (now King Blv ...

(Atlanta) * Davison's ( Atlanta), owned by Macy's since 1925 and converted to Macy's in 1986 * J.B. White (Augusta), became Dillard's in 1998 after J.B. White name was retired * J. M. High Company (Atlanta) *

Kessler's Kessler's was a family-owned lower-end department store chain in Georgia. The chain included a main store in downtown Atlanta and seven other locations: Smyrna, Rome, Newnan, West Point, Decatur, West Atlanta, and Canton Canton may refer to: ...

(Atlanta), also locations in Rome,

Newnan Newnan is a city in Metro Atlanta and the county seat of Coweta County, Georgia, about southwest of Atlanta. Its population was 42,549 at the 2020 census, up from 33,039 in 2010. History Newnan was established as county seat of Coweta Coun ...

and

Canton Canton may refer to: Administrative division terminology * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and ent ...

; low-end chain that closed in 1995 * Parisian acquired by Belk in 2007 * Rich's (Atlanta), acquired by Macy's * Uptons (Atlanta), liquidated in 1999; regional chain similar to Kohl's

Hawaii

* Liberty House ( Honolulu)

Idaho

* Block's Department Store ( Idaho Falls and region) It was a Pocatello-based department store chain that had stores in Idaho and Utah and was liquidated in 1986.Link
via ProQuest. Not to be confused with the Indianapolis-based

which was also known as "Block's". * Idaho Department Store (southern Idaho)

Caldwell Caldwell may refer to: People * Caldwell (surname) * Caldwell (given name) * Caldwell First Nation, a federally recognized Indian band in southern Ontario, Canada Places Great Britain * Caldwell, Derbyshire, a hamlet * Caldwell, East ...

-based department store chain that was purchased by the P.N. Hirsch division of Interco in 1966 when it had 25 stores and had survived at least to the mid-1980s.Link
via ProQuest. The chain was still a part of Interco when P.N. Hirsch was sold in 1983 but there is no mention of the chain in print after that point. * King's Variety Store

Illinois

* A. M. Rothschild & Co * Ames *

Famous Department Store The Famous Department Store (not to be confused with the "Famous Clothing Store", precursor to Famous-Barr and the May Department Stores Co.) was a department store in Los Angeles, California. Famous had its origins with the Cal Hirsch & Sons ...

(Ottawa) closed in 1983 * The Fair (Chicago and suburbs), acquired by Montgomery Ward in 1958 *

Gately's People's Store Gatelys Peoples Store was a department store at 11201 S. Michigan Avenue, in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago. It was described as "the biggest store on Michigan Avenue". James Gately purchased the Peoples Store in 1917 and added his name. ...

Goldblatt's Goldblatt's was an American chain of local discount stores that operated in Chicago, Illinois, as well as Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. Founded in 1914, the chain grew to more than twenty stores at its peak, gradually closing some stores in th ...

(Chicago), some stores acquired by

K's Merchandise Mart K's Merchandise Mart, Inc. (usually known as simply K's Merchandise) was a catalog showroom department store based in Decatur, Illinois. It offered furniture, jewelry, and general merchandise, including electronics, at 17 locations in 5 Midwestern ...

( Decatur) * Lewis's (Champaign) * Robeson's (Champaign) * Henry C. Lytton & Co. (Chicago, with branch in Gary, Indiana) *Madigans *

MainStreet Main Street is the generic street name (and often the official name) of the primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in many parts of the world. Main Street may refer to: Places Canada * Main Street (Toronto, Ontario) * Main Stre ...

Chicago, acquired by Kohl's in 1988 * Marshall Field's (Chicago), acquired by Macy's September 2006 despite local protest * McCabe's (Rock Island) * McDade's * Montgomery Ward, mail order store. Founded in 1872, Montgomery Ward pioneered mail-order catalog retailing and opened its first retail store in 1926. A bankruptcy reorganization in 1999 failed to turn the chain around. Closed 2001. Still exists as a catalog/ internet/ mail order retailer. *

Siegel-Cooper Company The Siegel-Cooper Company was a department store that opened in Chicago in 1887 and expanded into New York City in 1896. At the time of its opening, the New York store was the largest in the world. First store in Chicago Siegel-Cooper began a ...

Chas A. Stevens Chas A. Stevens was a Chicago department store. It started in 1886 as a catalog business and eventually grew to 29 locations in the Chicago metropolitan area The Chicago metropolitan area, also colloquially referred to as Chicagoland, is a ...

(Chicago) Purchased by Hartmarx Corp. before being closed. *

Turn Style Turn Style was a chain of discount department stores and was a division of Chicago-based Jewel, the parent company of the Jewel Food Stores supermarket chain. Some mid-western Turn Styles had an Osco Pharmacy, at the time very uncommon for a d ...

( Melrose Park), created by

The Jewel Companies, Inc. Jewel-Osco is a regional supermarket chain in the Chicago metropolitan area, headquartered in Itasca, a western suburb. In 2007, the company had 188 stores across northern, central, and western Illinois; eastern Iowa; and portions of northwest ...

, sold to

in 1978 *

Wieboldt's Wieboldt Stores, Inc., also known as Wieboldt's, did business as a Chicago general retailer between 1883 and 1987. It was founded in 1883 by storekeeper William A. Wieboldt. The flagship location was at One North State Street Store in Chicago. H ...

(Chicago) * Zayre (Chicago)

Indiana

* Aldens ( Terre Haute) *

(

Indianapolis Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion ...

, statewide also surrounding states), originally a division of

L. S. Ayres L. S. Ayres and Company was a department store based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and founded in 1872 by Lyman S. Ayres. Over the years its Indianapolis flagship store, which opened in 1905 and was later enlarged, became known for its women's fas ...

, subsequently acquired by

Target Target may refer to: Physical items * Shooting target, used in marksmanship training and various shooting sports ** Bullseye (target), the goal one for which one aims in many of these sports ** Aiming point, in field artillery, fi ...

(Indianapolis, 6 stores, and statewide) *

Ball Stores Ball Stores was a Muncie, Indiana based department store chain founded in November 1934. The original downtown store was located in the former W.A. McNaughton Company Building (predecessor of Ball Stores) at the corner of Charles and Walnut Street ...

( Muncie) *

(Indianapolis, statewide), also was known as Block's * Danner's Discount Department Stores (Indianapolis, statewide), several locations also known as

3D Discount Danners, Inc was a company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, that operated retail and restaurant outlets. Its largest, and oldest, division was the Danners 5 & 10 chain of five and dime stores, which it closed in 1985. Danners also operated tw ...

* DeJong's ( Evansville) Purchased by Hartmarx Corp. and resold before being closed * Fetla's ( Valparaiso) *

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( Anderson) *

(South Bend) *

Gordon's Gordon's is a brand of London dry gin first produced in 1769. The top markets for Gordon's are the United Kingdom, the United States and Greece. It is owned by the British spirits company Diageo. It is the world's best-selling London dry gin. ...

(

Gary Gary may refer to: *Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary Places ;Iran *Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province ;Unit ...

) *

Heck's Heck's Department Store, a chain of West Virginia based discount department stores, was founded by Boone County natives and businessmen Fred Haddad, Tom Ellis, and Lester Ellis and wholesale distributor Douglas Cook. The Heck's name was a combin ...

(Fort Wayne) *

Hills Department Store Hills was a discount department store chain based in Canton, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, Ohio and existed until 1999 when it was acquired by Ames. Most stores were located in Ohio, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania and We ...

(Indianapolis) * K&S Department Store ( Kokomo) *

George H. Knollenberg Co. George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Presiden ...

(

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, ...

), founded in 1866 by George Knollenberg, closed in 1995 *

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( Terre Haute), founded in 1923 and was acquired by Elder-Beerman in 1987. At one time, it had 10 stores in three states with locations Terre Haute, Marion, Elkhart, and Kokomo in Indiana, Danville, Mattoon, and Carbondale in Illinois, and Paducah, Kentucky.Alternate Link
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. *

Edward C. Minas Co. Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sax ...

(

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), also had a branch store in Calumet City, Illinois at

River Oaks Center River Oaks Center is a shopping mall located at the southeast corner of River Oaks Drive and Torrence Avenue in Calumet City, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago. River Oaks Center is the seventh largest in the Chicago metropolitan area totalin ...

* Root Dry Goods Co. ( Terre Haute) First opened in 1856 and operated until 1998 when it was sold to May Department Stores and converted to

stores. Was owned by Mercantile Stores from 1914 to 1998. * L. Strauss & Co. (

) *

(statewide and Illinois) *

H. P. Wasson and Company H. P. Wasson and Company, aka Wasson's, was an Indianapolis, Indiana, based department store chain founded by Hiram P. Wasson. Its flagship store, the H. P. Wasson & Company Building, was built in 1937 and is listed on the U.S. National Register ...

(Indianapolis) * Weiler's Banner-Fair Incorporated ( Anderson,

Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...

and Hartford City) * The Wicks Co. ( Bloomington), operated between 1891 and 1976. * Wolf & Dessauer (Fort Wayne,

downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...

and Southtown, and Huntington), purchased from

City Store Company A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

L. S. Ayres L. S. Ayres and Company was a department store based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and founded in 1872 by Lyman S. Ayres. Over the years its Indianapolis flagship store, which opened in 1905 and was later enlarged, became known for its women's fas ...

(Indianapolis) in 1969 and rebranded as Ayres * Zayre (

) * Ziesel's ( Elkhart), founded in 1904 and closed in 1986

Iowa

Newman's Newman's was an American department store chain based out of Joplin, Missouri. Newman Mercantile Company was started by Jewish entrepreneur Joseph Newman, a German immigrant, in the mid 19th century. Joseph Newman's son Albert and son in law Gabe ...

(Cedar Rapids) * Younkers

Kansas

ALCO Stores ALCO Stores, Inc. (formerly Duckwall-ALCO Stores) was a retail chain operating 198 stores in 23 states, primarily in the United States Midwest. The company was founded in 1901 in Kansas by Alva Lease Duckwall. It had its headquarters in Copp ...

* Henry's (Wichita) *

(Arkansas City) *

Woolf Brothers Sir John Woolf (15 March 1913, London – 28 June 1999, London) and his brother James Woolf (2 March 1920, London – 30 May 1966, Beverly Hills, California) were British film producers. John and James founded the production companies Romulus Fil ...

(Wichita)

Kentucky

* S.W. Anderson's ( Owensboro) * J. Bacon's & Sons "Bacon's" ( Louisville), division of Mercantile Stores Company. All locations merged into sister division

McAlpin's McAlpin's was a Cincinnati-based department store founded in 1852 as Ellis, McAlpin & Co. McAlpin's opened their landmark downtown location on Fourth Street in 1880. In 1954, McAlpin's became the first Cincinnati department store to open a suburba ...

( Cincinnati) 1980s, select locations converted to

1998 with Dillard purchase of Mercantile and the rest closed. *

Ben Snyder's Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett or Benson, and is also a given name in its own right. Ben (in he, בֶּן, ''son of'') forms part of Hebrew surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham ( he, � ...

(Louisville), was founded in 1913 and later sold to Hess's in 1987. * Hess's (Louisville) * Hub (Danville), opened 1906, renamed Hub-Frankel by 1948. Closed in 1996. *

Kaufman-Straus Kaufman-Straus was a local department store that operated in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1879 to 1969. In 1879, local retail clerk Henry Kaufman opened the first store on Jefferson between 7th and 8th. Four years later, Benjamin Straus entered into ...

(Louisville), changed to

Kaufman's Kaufman-Straus was a local department store that operated in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1879 to 1969. In 1879, local retail clerk Henry Kaufman opened the first store on Jefferson between 7th and 8th. Four years later, Benjamin Straus entered in ...

(1960), purchased from

City Stores Company CSS Industries, Inc., was founded in 1923, as City Stores Company. Its headquarters is at 1845 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with showrooms in New York City, Memphis, Tennessee, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Hong Kong. The company desi ...

L. S. Ayres L. S. Ayres and Company was a department store based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and founded in 1872 by Lyman S. Ayres. Over the years its Indianapolis flagship store, which opened in 1905 and was later enlarged, became known for its women's fas ...

(Indianapolis) in 1969 and rebranded as Ayres *

Parson's The C.H. Parsons Company was a regional department store chain headquartered in Ashland, Kentucky. Touted as "Eastern Kentucky's finest store", it served the entire eastern portion of the state from its large five-story "flagship" location on U.S ...

( Ashland), furniture department continues to operate as standalone business circa 2009 * H. P. Selman & Co. or Selman's (Louisville), founded in 1915, purchased by Weiss Brothers (1961), name changed to Gus Mayer (1970) *

Stewart Dry Goods The Stewart Dry Goods Company — alternately known as Stewart Dry Goods, or Stewart's — was a regional department store chain based in Louisville, Kentucky. At its height, the chain consisted of seven store locations in Kentucky and Indiana. ...

(Louisville and Lexington), division of

Associated Dry Goods Associated Dry Goods Corporation (ADG) was a chain of department stores that merged with May Department Stores in 1986. It was founded in 1916 as an association of independent stores called American Dry Goods, based in New York City. History T ...

. Merged into

L. S. Ayres L. S. Ayres and Company was a department store based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and founded in 1872 by Lyman S. Ayres. Over the years its Indianapolis flagship store, which opened in 1905 and was later enlarged, became known for its women's fas ...

(

) along with H & S Pogue Company ( Cincinnati) in the early 1980s, then Macy's 2006. * Wolfe-Wile Co. (Lexington) * Shopper's Fair (Paducah) ?

Louisiana

Beall-Ladymon Stage Stores was a department store company specializing in retailing off-price brand name apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear, and housewares throughout the United States. Stores were usually located in shopping malls and centers or in st ...

(Shreveport), purchased from Horace Ladymon by

Stage Stores, Inc. Stage Stores was a department store company specializing in retailing off-price brand name apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear, and housewares throughout the United States. Stores were usually located in shopping malls and centers or in s ...

in 1994. Stores converted to Stage soon thereafter. *

D. H. Holmes D. H. Holmes was a New Orleans department store and later a New Orleans-based chain of department stores. The company was founded in 1842 by Daniel Henry Holmes, after whom it is named.Dillard's Dillard's, Inc. is an upscale American department store chain with approximately 282 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, the largest number of stores are located in Texas with 57 and Florida with 42. The ...

in 1989 * Krauss, 1903–1997 *

(New Orleans), last operated under that name by Mercantile Stores Co. Remaining Maison Blanche stores converted to Dillard's in 1998. * The Palace (Monroe) * Palais Royal (Shreveport), purchased by Wellan's of Alexandria 1985. Rebranded and later closed. Stage later revived the name after their purchase of Wellan's. * Selber Bros. (Shreveport), begun in 1907, purchased by and converted to Dillard's in 1988

Maine

Ames Department Store Ames Department Stores Inc. was an American chain of discount stores based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States. The company was founded in 1958 with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and at its peak operated 700 stores in 20 states, i ...

* Arlan's Department Store (

) *

Ben Franklin's Ben Franklin is a chain of five and dime and arts and crafts stores found primarily in small towns throughout the United States, currently owned by Promotions Unlimited of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. They are organized using a franchise system, ...

( Bucksport) *

* Britt's ( Ellsworth) * Grants Department Store (Bangor, Belfast,

Biddeford Biddeford is a city in York County, Maine, United States. It is the principal commercial center of York County. Its population was 22,552 at the 2020 census. The twin cities of Saco and Biddeford include the resort communities of Biddeford Poo ...

, Calais, Old Town,

Rockland Rockland may refer to: People *Per Bergsland, nicknamed Peter Rockland, one of three successful escapees from Stalag Luft III (the "Great Escape") Places ;In Canada *Rockland, Greater Victoria *Rockland, Nova Scotia *Rockland, Ontario ;In the Uni ...

, Portland, Brunswick) * LS Hall Company

Caribou, Maine Caribou is the second largest city in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. Its population was 7,396 at the 2020 census, and between the 2010 and 2020 census it was the fastest-shrinking city in Maine. The city is a service center for the agri ...

Mammoth Mart Mammoth Mart was a discount department store chain, located in the northeastern United States, primarily in the New England area. The chain was founded by Max Coffman and Henry Gornstein in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1956, and was something of ...

(Bangor, Biddeford, Brunswick, Scarborough, Waterville), Ellsworth *

McLellan's William Walker McLellan (1873–April 11, 1960) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He came to the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and began working at a department store in Newark, New Jersey. He became a manager of the first S. H. K ...

( Waterville, Westbrook) * J.J. Newberry (Lincoln, Millinocket, Calais, Eastport, Ellsworth, Brunswick, Norway) * Porteous, Mitchell & Braun (Congress Street, Portland), branch locations in

, Bangor, Brunswick, Presque Isle,

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, Newington, New Hampshire and

Burlington, Vermont Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County. It is located south of the Canada–United States border and south of Montreal. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 44,743. It ...

* Freese's, Main St Bangor, Maine

Maryland

* Bradleys (Dundalk, Baltimore) * Garfinckel's ( Washington, D.C., and Maryland suburbs) * Hamburgers (Baltimore) Originally Isaac Hamburger & Son's clothiers *

Hechinger The Hechinger Company was an American chain of home-improvement centers headquartered in Landover, Maryland, on the immediate outskirts of Washington, D.C., from 1911 to 1999. It was also an online retailer owned by Home Decor Products from 2 ...

(Landover, Baltimore and Maryland suburbs) * Hecht's (Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Maryland suburbs), converted to Macy's 2006 * Hochschild Kohn's (Baltimore and Maryland suburbs) * Hutzler's (Baltimore and Maryland suburbs) * S. Klein ( Beltway Plaza,

Greenbelt A green belt is a policy and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas. Similar concepts are greenways or green wedges, which hav ...

) Lansburgh's ( Rockville) * Lazarus (

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) * Rosenbaum Brothers (Cumberland) * Stewart's (Baltimore and Maryland suburbs) *

Sunny's Surplus Sunny's Surplus (formerly known as Sunny's Great Outdoors and Sunny's: The Affordable Outdoor Store) was, at its peak, a chain of 29 surplus stores in Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware. The chain was founded in 1948 by Sidney Weinman to sell World ...

(Baltimore, Dundalk, Elkridge, Towson) * Woodward & Lothrop ''aka'' Woodies (Washington, D. C. and Maryland suburbs)

Massachusetts

AJ Wright AJWright (formerly formatted as A.J. Wright until 2009) was a chain of about 129 American retail/outlet stores established in 1998 and owned by TJX Companies. Like its sister company T.J. Maxx, AJWright sold clothing, domestics, giftware, footwea ...

(Framingham) Sold by TJX Companies, in 2010 * Almy's, closed 1985 * Ames, Southbridge, closed 2002 * Ann & Hope ( Seekonk,

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, Danvers and Watertown) closed in 2001 * Arlan's Department Store (

New Bedford New Bedford (Massachusett: ) is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts. It is located on the Acushnet River in what is known as the South Coast region. Up through the 17th century, the area was the territory of the Wampanoag Native American pe ...

, Fall River, Massachusetts * The Bon Marché (Lowell), later merged into Jordan Marsh * Bradlees ( Boston, Somerset, Massachusetts) * Building #19,

Swansea, Massachusetts Swansea is a town in Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts. It is located at the mouth of the Taunton River, just west of Fall River, south of Boston, and southeast of Providence, Rhode Island. The population was 17,144 at the 2020 cens ...

New Bedford, Massachusetts New Bedford (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ) is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, Bristol County, Massachusetts. It is located on the Acushnet River in what is known as the South Coast (Massachusetts), South Coast region. Up throug ...

* Denholm & McKay (Worcester), two branches at one time * Filene's (Boston), converted to Macy's 2006 * Filene's Basement (Boston), separated from parent Filene's in 1988, closed 2011 *

Forbes & Wallace Forbes and Wallace was an American department store chain based in Springfield, Massachusetts. History Early years The Forbes and Wallace Store was constructed by partners Alexander B. Forbes and Andrew Brabner Wallace in 1873 at the corne ...

(

Springfield Springfield may refer to: * Springfield (toponym), the place name in general Places and locations Australia * Springfield, New South Wales (Central Coast) * Springfield, New South Wales (Snowy Monaro Regional Council) * Springfield, Queenslan ...

* Gilchrist's (Boston) * W. T. Grant, bankrupt in 1976, Fall River, Massachusetts, Somerset, Massachusetts * J.M. Fields, Fall River, Massachusetts Chelmsford, Massachusetts * Jordan Marsh (Boston), converted to Macy's in 1991 due to bankruptcy * Kennedy’s of New England, Boston-based chain specializing in men & boy’s clothing; closed 1980 *

King's Department Stores King's Department Stores was a chain of discount stores in the Eastern United States. The chain started in 1956, in Brockton, Massachusetts. They expanded to 187 stores (three stores operated in the Buffalo, New York area). In 1978, they purcha ...

Inc. (Brockton) * Lechmere, originally Lechmere Sales (Cambridge), closed 1997, Seekonk, Massachusetts *

(flagship store in Framingham) *

Raymond's Raymond's was an eastern Massachusetts department store company of the 19th and 20th centuries, extant from the 1870s to 1972. The main store was at Washington Street and Franklin Street in downtown Boston. Shortly after the Great Boston fire of ...

Department Stores (Boston, also Dedham and other locations) * Rich's (Salem,

Greenfield Greenfield or Greenfields may refer to: Engineering and Business * Greenfield agreement, an employment agreement for a new organisation * Greenfield investment, the investment in a structure in an area where no previous facilities exist * Greenf ...

and other locations), closed 1997 *

Spag's Spag's was a discount department store on Route 9 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. The store was considered an early pioneer of discount retailing and was notable for its longtime resistance to accepting charge cards (until 1992), offering plastic ...

(

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), 1936–2004, sold to Building #19 *

R. H. Stearns and Company R. H. Stearns & Company, or Stearns, as it was commonly called, was an upper-middle market department store based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded by R. H. Stearns in 1847. The flagship store was located on Tremont Street, opposite Boston Co ...

(Boston) * Service Merchandise * Stuart's Department Store (Lowell) * Zayre (Framingham), Fall River, Massachusetts *

Wilson's Wilson may refer to: People *Wilson (name) ** List of people with given name Wilson ** List of people with surname Wilson * Wilson (footballer, 1927–1998), Brazilian manager and defender *Wilson (footballer, born 1984), full name Wilson Rodr ...

( Greenfield, Massachusetts)

Michigan

* Arbaugh's of Lansing, also known as Cameron & Arbaugh. See

The Arbaugh The Arbaugh is a mixed-use building containing 48 loft-style apartments, which was originally built as a department store. The building is located at 401 South Washington in Lansing, Michigan. The building was listed on the National Register of Hi ...

. * Arlan's Department Store ( Detroit) though not opened in Detroit until 1960s expansion, founded in 1945, bankrupt in 1973 * Billings Five and Dime Store, Bay City, Michigan * Ciechanowski`s Dry Goods. Hamtramck * Crowley's, a/k/a Crowley Milner (Detroit), sold to Value City in 1999 *

E.J. Korvette E. J. Korvette, also known as Korvettes, was an American chain of discount department stores, founded in 1948 in New York City. It was one of the first department stores to challenge the suggested retail price provisions of anti-discounting st ...

Korvette's E. J. Korvette, also known as Korvettes, was an American chain of discount department stores, founded in 1948 in New York City. It was one of the first department stores to challenge the suggested retail price provisions of anti-discounting st ...

Founded 1948, Bankrupt 1980 * The Fair ( Lansing, Flint) *

Federal's Federal Department Store, or Federal's, was a department store chain based in Detroit. History Federal's was founded in 1929. In 1961, Federal's merged with Kobacker's of Columbus, Ohio and in 1969, it bought Shifrin-Willens Jewelers.

(Detroit), discount department store, closed in 1980. * Getz's Marquette, with over a 100-year history, still operating. * Gilmore Brother's 1881-1999 Kalamazoo * Grisdale's Department Store, Bay City, Michigan * Grand Leader ( Battle Creek) * Herpolsheimer's (

Grand Rapids Grand Rapids is a city and county seat of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,917 which ranks it as the second most-populated city in the state after Detroit. Grand Rapids is the ...

, Muskegon), sold to Lazarus in 1988 *

Himelhoch's Himelhoch's was a department store in Michigan, United States. Wolf Himelhoch was a Jewish-Latvian emigrant from Courland, part of the Russian Empire that is now Latvia. He started the company in the 1870s in the Michigan Thumb, selling merchand ...

( Detroit), filed for Chap. 11 in 1979. Founded in Caro, MI in 1876, Himelhoch's moved to Detroit in 1907.
Himelhoch's Department Store
returned online in 2018 under the ownership of fourth-generation family members. * Hudson's (Detroit), rebranded to

Marshall Field & Company Marshall Field & Company (commonly known as Marshall Field's) was an upscale department store in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in the 19th century, it grew to become a large chain before Macy's, Inc acquired it in 2005. Its eponymous founder, Mar ...

in 2001, then Macy's in 2006 * Jacobson's founded in Jackson. Independent regional luxury department store chain located primarily in Michigan and Florida, but also operated stores in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Kansas. The last store closed its doors in early 2002. Then, one store in Winter Park, Florida was re-established as Jacobson's in 2004. * J.B. Perry, Port Huron *Kahn's Department Store,

Mikado Mikado may refer to: * Emperor of Japan or Arts and entertainment * ''The Mikado'', an 1885 comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan * ''The Mikado'' (1939 film), an adaptation of the opera, directed by Victor Schertzinger * ''The Mikado'' (1967 f ...

Kern's ''For the California beverage company, see Kern's (beverage company)'' Kern's, or The Ernst Kern Dry Good Company, was a department store established in Detroit in 1883 by Ernst Kern, who was born in Germany. In 1886, the original store was cons ...

(Detroit), closed in 1959 * KMart, originally headquartered in Troy, still operating a few locations. * Knapp’s (J.W. Knapp Company) closed in 1980 * Knepp's Department Store, Bay City, Michigan *

Kresge's Kmart Corporation ( , doing business as Kmart and stylized as kmart) is an American retail company that owns a chain of big box department stores. The company is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States. The company was inco ...

and

S. S. Kresge Sebastian Spering Kresge (July 31, 1867 – October 18, 1966) was an American businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores, the S. S. Kresge Company, one of the 20th century's largest discount retail organizations, and the ...

( Michigan) (incorporated in 1899), later K-Mart Corporation, then Sears Holdings Corporation is frequently credited with invention of the modern discount department store with the opening of Kmart in 1962. The last Kresge's store in Livonia, Michigan closed in 1987. The chain operated over 2,000 stores worldwide. Stores included lunch counters and fountain service as well as full department stores. It also operated Jupiter stores which were a smaller-scale version of Kresge's and located in downmarket or declining commercial districts (the equivalent of a "dollar store" division of Kresge's). Jupiter stores, unlike Kresge and Kmart stores, sold 'factory seconds' merchandise. * Lendzon's, Hamtramck * Mack & Co. (originally Mack & Schmid) located at Liberty and Main Street,

Ann Arbor Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna (name), Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah (given name), Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie (given name), ...

, in the building that eventually housed the later

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. It was in business from the end of the 19th Century to 1940. *John H. Maurer Bargain Store,

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*Mill End, Bay City and

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* Milliken's, Traverse City and Manistee, Michigan. See William Milliken. * Mitzelfeld's Department Store, Rochester * Montgomery Ward. Aaron Montgomery Ward, its founder grew up in Niles. Various locations, including Dearborn, Jackson, Harper Woods, Lansing, Southfield, Southgate, Livonia Pontiac, Royal Oak Wyoming Ludington, Manistee, Port Huron, Roseville, Three Rivers. *

*Norman’s, Bay City, East Tawas, Standish, Traverse City * Peebles, Alpena * Pizer's Variety Store Harrisville, originally The White Store, at the corner of Lake Street and Main Street. * Robinson's, Battle Creek * Sam's Cut Rate, Detroit * Shoppers Fair * Seitner’s Department Store, Saginaw * Sears * B. Siegel & Company, originally Heyns Bazaar. *

Smith Bridgman Smith may refer to: People * Metalsmith, or simply smith, a craftsman fashioning tools or works of art out of various metals * Smith (given name) * Smith (surname), a family name originating in England, Scotland and Ireland ** List of people wi ...

( Flint) *

Steketee's Steketee's was a department store based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. It was begun in 1862 in Grand Rapids, and soon grew to several stores throughout southwestern Michigan. After a purchase by the Dunlaps company of Fort Worth, Texas ...

(Grand Rapids) * Teerman's, Holland. * The Fair Savings Bank Department Store, a/k/a The Fair Department Store Escanaba See Escanaba Central Historic District. * Toeller's (Battle Creek), sold to L. W. Robinson Co. in 1971 * Topps (Redford Township), Telegraph & Schoolcraft; (Warren), 13 Mile & Van Dyke; all closed by 1974 * F.B. Watkins,

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*The White store Lapeer * Winkelman's (Detroit), purchased by Petrie Stores in 1983; closed during bankruptcy in 1998 *Wonderland Discount Department Stores, Laporte and Michigan City, Indiana and Dowagiac, Michigan, Dowagiac, Niles and South Haven, Michigan *F. W. Woolworth Company, WoolworthSS Kresge and F.W. Woolworth Stores on Woodward Avenue
/ref> * W.T. Grant * Wurtzburg's of Grand RapidsWurtzburg's
The Department Store Museum. * Yankee Stores, discount store with locations in Michigan and Ohio; closed in 1974 * Younkers Midland, Michigan, Midland and Marquette. Owned by Bon-Ton Stores * Zayre Kalamazoo

Minnesota

* Dayton's ( Minneapolis), est. 1902, converted to

in 2001, then Macy's 2006 * Donaldson's (Minneapolis), est. 1883, converted to Carson Pirie Scott in 1987 and closed in 1995 * Herberger's (St. Cloud) * Powers Dry Goods (Minneapolis), est. 1881, acquired by

in 1920, merged with Donaldson's in 1985 * Salkin & Linoff (Minneapolis) * Glass-Block (Duluth), founded as Panton & White * Wahl's (Duluth)

Mississippi

* McRae's (Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson), acquired by Belk in 2006

Missouri

(St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis), founded 1911, absorbed by May Department Stores early 1990s, acquired by Macy's 2006 * Heer's (Springfield, Missouri, Springfield), established in 1869, closed in 1995 * The Jones Store (Kansas City), absorbed by May Department Stores 1998, sold to Macy's chain 2006 * Kmart (United States), Kmart (St. Louis) *

(Joplin, Missouri, Joplin), acquired by parent company of Heer's of Springfield, Missouri, Springfield in the early 1980s, closed in 1995 * Scruggs Vandervoort & Barney (St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis), closed in 1967 * Stix, Baer, Fuller (St. Louis), acquired by

in 1983 * Townsend & Wall (St. Joseph, Missouri, St. Joseph) *

(St. Louis) *

(Kansas City), founded 1865, closed in 1992. (See Herbert M. Woolf.)

Montana

* Buttrey's (Havre, Montana, Havre) (Miles City, Montana, Miles City) * Cole's (Billings) * Hennessy's, acquired by

in 1998 * J.M. McDonald (Montana, Wyoming, others)

Nebraska

* J. L. Brandeis and Sons Store, J.L. Brandeis and Sons Store (Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha), acquired by Younkers in 1987Alternate Link
via ProQuest.Link
via ProQuest. * Gold and Company (Lincoln, Nebraska, Lincoln), acquired by J. L. Brandeis and Sons Store, J.L. Brandeis and Sons Store in 1964.Link
via ProQuest. Building now Gold's Galleria office/retail complex. * Herpolsheimer's (Lincoln, Nebraska), Herpolsheimer's (Lincoln), closed 1931. * J.M. McDonald (Hastings, Nebraska, Hastings), eventually grew to a chain of 82 stores, sold in 1968, liquidated shortly after 1982 * Miller & Paine (Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska, Grand Island), acquired by

in 1988 * Rudge & Guenzel (Lincoln), acquired by Allied Stores in 1929, closed in 1941 when Allied sold the contents of the store to Gold & Co.Link
via ProQuest.

Nevada

* Ronzone's (Las Vegas et al.)

New Hampshire

* Steinbach (store), Steinbach (Manchester, New Hampshire) Sold to The Bon-Ton

New Jersey

* Great Eastern (aka Great Eastern Mills) Paramus, NJ, Little Falls NJ, Elmont NY and others. merged with Diana Stores, then Daylin inc. * Alexander's (Paramus, New Jersey, Paramus) *

(Newark, New Jersey, Newark and other NJ locations), division of R.H. Macy, converted to Macy's in 1986 * Chase-Newark (Newark and 2 branches) * J.M. Fields * W. T. Grant * Hahne and Company (Newark, New Jersey, Newark and statewide), New Jersey's carriage trade store merged into sister division Lord & Taylor *

(North Brunswick, New Jersey, North Brunswick Trenton, New Jersey, Trenton) * Kresge-Newark (Newark and 2 branches) * Muir's Department Store * Ohrbach's * Reynolds Brothers (Lakewood, New Jersey, Lakewood) * Steinbach (store), Steinbach (New Jersey locations) *

(also known as Two Guys from Harrison) * Yards Department Store (Trenton, New Jersey, Trenton)

New Mexico

New York (state), New York

* Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn) * J. N. Adam & Co. (Buffalo, New York, Buffalo) * The Addis Company, merged with Dey Brothers (Syracuse, New York, Syracuse) * Alexander's (New York metropolitan area), declared bankruptcy in 1992 * B. Altman and Company (New York City) * AM&A's (Adam, Meldrum & Anderson Company, Buffalo), purchased by The Bon-Ton of York, Pennsylvania in 1994 * Arnold Constable (Fifth Avenue, New York City) * Barker's (multiple locations) *

* Barneys New York * Beirs (Niagara Falls) * L.L. Berger (Buffalo), last store, in downtown Buffalo, closed in 1991 * Best & Co. (New York), closed in the 1960s * Bonwit Teller (New York City, Boston, and upstate New York) * Britt's (Vestal, New York, Vestal) multiple locations including Gloversville/Johnstown * Caldor * Century_21_(department_store), Century 21 * Chappell's (Syracuse, New York, Syracuse), merged into The Bon-Ton of York, Pennsylvania in the 1990s * De Pinna on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan * Dey Brothers (Dey's (company), Dey's, Syracuse) * Family Bargain Centers (Binghamton, Norwich, South Corning) * J.M. Fields * B. Forman Co. (Rochester, New York, Rochester) * Fowler, Dick & Walker - The Boston Store (Binghamton, New York, Binghamton), now Boscov's * Franklin Simon & Co. * Georg Jensen Inc. (New York, NY) (Manhattan) 1935-1968 * Gertz (department store), Gertz Department Stores (Queens, Nassau County, New York, Nassau and Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk counties), owned by Allied Stores; closed in 1982 and changed to Stern's then Macy's * Gimbels (Manhattan). The rivalry of Macy's and Gimbels is immortalized in ''Miracle on 34th Street''; Bernard Gimbel, the owner of Gimbels, along with Horace Saks founded Saks Fifth Avenue * Gold Circle (multiple locations) * Grand Way (Grand Union (supermarket)) * W. T. Grant (Binghamton, Troy, Long Island, Queens, and others) * Hens and Kelly (Buffalo, New York, Buffalo) * Hess's, Hess New Hartford, Rotterdam *

(Oneonta, New York, Oneonta), currently Price Chopper Plaza Rte 28. Also Johnstown * Jenss (Buffalo), closed their last location on 15 September 2000 * Jupiter (store), Jupiter Stores, Division of the S.S. Kresge Company. * Kobacker, two locations in Buffalo, New York; closure announced on December 27, 1972.Alternate Link
via ProQuest. No relation to Kobacker's Market, a grocery store in Brewster, New York *

E.J. Korvette E. J. Korvette, also known as Korvettes, was an American chain of discount department stores, founded in 1948 in New York City. It was one of the first department stores to challenge the suggested retail price provisions of anti-discounting st ...

( New York City), closed 1980 * S. S. Kresge, Kresge's (multiple locations) * Loehmann's, peaked at about 100 stores in 17 states, liquidated in 2014 after several bankruptcies. * Lord & Taylor 1823-2020 * Luckey, Platt & Company Department Store (Poughkeepsie, New York, Poughkeepsie) * Martin's (New York), Martin's (Brooklyn) * J.W. Mays (Downstate New York), closed 1989, now leases old store locations * McClean's (Binghamton) * McCrory Stores, McCrory's (Johnson City, Amsterdam, Utica, others) * G. C. Murphy * John G. Myers Company, John G. Myers (Albany, New York, Albany) * J.J. Newberry (multiple locations) *

or Neisner Brothers was a chain of variety stores in North America, opened their first variety store in Rochester, New York, in 1911. * Ohrbach's, liquidated in 1987 and acquired by Steinbach (store), Howland-Steinbach * Pharmhouse * Philadelphia Sales (Binghamton, Johnson City, Endicott) * S. Klein (New York City), closed 1978 * Sattler's (Buffalo, New York, Buffalo) * Sibley's (Sibley, Lindsey, & Curr) (Rochester, New York, Rochester, in 1911, unit of

later merged into L.S. Ayers (Indianapolis) and then select locations converted to Lord & Taylor *

* Sisson's (Binghamton) * Alexander Turney Stewart, A.T. Stewart's (Manhattan), purchased by Wanamaker's of Pennsylvania * Times Square Stores, discount department chain mostly focused on Long Island * Twin Fair, Inc. dba Twin Fair (multiple locations) *

(multiple locations) *

or Wanamaker's ( New York City), sold to Carter Hawley Hale in 1979, then Washington, DC-based Woodward & Lothrop owned by

; sold to May Company in 1995; merged with Federated Department Stores in 2005 (now known as Macy's, Inc.) * F.W. Woolworth Company, Woolworth's multiple locations * Zayre's (currently Wal-Mart, Miller Hill, Q) became Ames. Multiple locations

North Carolina

* Brody's (Kinston, North Carolina, Kinston), acquired by Proffitt's in 1998 * Ivey's (Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte), acquired by Dillard's in 1990 *Sky City (store), Sky City closed 1990

North Dakota

* The Fair (Minot, North Dakota, Minot)

Ohio

* Alms and Doepke (Cincinnati), Located furthest from central downtown Cincinnati relative to other department stores: N. side of Central Pkwy. between Walnut and Race Streets in an area bordering the "Over the Rhine" district; no branch stores. Closed and liquidated in 1955 * Best Products, Best, closed in 1996 * Bargain City (Toledo), started by Hyman Swolsky in Toledo as Bargain Barn, later renamed Bargain City, sold to Gray Drug, Gray Drug Co. of Cleveland in 1967, renamed Rink's Bargain City after merger, sold to Cook United Inc. and renamed Rink's in 1981, closed in 1987 * Bailey Brothers (Cleveland, Ohio) Later Bailey's Department Store, closed 1968. * B.R. Baker, Toledo * Gamble-Skogmo#Discount Department Stores, Buckeye Mart (Columbus, Ohio) owned by Gamble-Skogmo, Gamble-Skogmo, Inc.; Columbus stores closed in the mid-1970s; Remaining Ohio stores along with Tempo stores in Michigan were sold to

Stores and renamed Fisher's Buckeye Tempo. * Gamble-Skogmo#Discount Department Stores, Clark's (Portsmouth), owned by Clark's Gamble Corp., whose two shareholders were Landau Stores, Inc. and Gamble-Skogmo, Inc., Clark's Gamble Corp. was later sold to Cook United * Cook's (department store), Cook's flagship of Cook United Corporation. * Donenfeld's (Dayton)Alternate Link
via NewsBank. *

, (Cleveland, Ohio), branches of Federal Department Stores in Michigan not part of Federated Stores, this company closed in 1974Link
via ProQuest. *

and Fisher's Buckeye-Tempo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Closed 1994 * Frank Brothers (Marion, Ohio), Closed 1979. * Gaylords Department Store, Northeastern Ohio, Giant Tiger until 1968 * Gold Circle (Columbus, Ohio) part of the Federated Stores Company * Goldman's (Dayton) * Gregg's (department store), Gregg's (Lima, Ohio, Lima) *

(Cleveland), also known as "Halle's", division of

, sold 1981 to Associated Investors Corp, Downtown closed 1982, Final Westgate Location in Fairview Park, Ohio closed in 1983 * Harts Stores a division of Big Bear Stores, Columbus, Ohio * Heck's Department Store * Higbee's (Cleveland), converted to

in 1992, now the Jack Cleveland Casino *

* Milner's, Toledo * J.J. Newberry. This chain had many stores in Ohio including: Coshocton, Wooster, East Palestine, Cincinnati. The company came under control of McCrory Stores in 1974. John Josiah Newberry, founder of the company, died in 1954. * John J. Carroll (Newark, Ohio, Newark). * Jupiter (store), Jupiter Stores, Division of the S.S. Kresge Company. Operated several stores in Ohio. Including one in Downtown Mount Vernon, Ohio which had been a S. S. Kresge store for many years. Also a location in Downtown Ashland, Ohio. Jupiter was a no frills store. When leases were soon to be up on several S. S. Kresge stores the Jupiter format was put in place. All remaining Kresge and Jupiter stores were sold to McCrory in 1987 with the Canadian Kresge and Jupiter stores closing in 1994. * Kobackers (Canton, Ohio, Canton, Mansfield, Ohio, Mansfield, Portsmouth, Ohio, Portsmouth), purchase by Davidson Bros., the parent of

in 1961Alternate Link
via ProQuest.Alternate Link
via ProQuest. * Lamson Brothers (Toledo, Ohio, Toledo). Lamson's entered bankruptcy and closed in 1976. * Lasalle's, Lasalle & Koch Co. (Toledo), bought by R.H. Macy in 1923; operated under the Lasalle's name until 1981, when Macy consolidated Lasalle's with another division, Macy's Missouri-Kansas, to form Macy's Midwest. Macy sold the former Lasalle's stores to Elder-Beerman of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton in 1985. * Lazarus (Columbus, Ohio, Columbus), a founding division of Federated Stores, name change briefly to Lazarus-Macy's and then Macy's in 2005. * Leader Store (Lima, Ohio, Lima), converted to Elder-Beerman, still operating as of 2009 * Lion Store, The Lion Dry Goods Co. (Toledo), known locally as the Lion Store. Some locations survive as of 2009 with the

name, following their 1998 purchase of Lion's previous owner, Mercantile Stores Co. * Mabley & Carew ( Cincinnati), unit of Allied Department Stores * May Company Ohio, May Company (Cleveland), merged into Kaufmann's in 1993 and converted to Macy's 2006 *

(Cincinnati), unit of Mercantile Stores Co., select locations operating as

as of 2009 * Morehouse Martens (Columbus, Ohio), merged with "The Fashion" to become "Morehouse-Fashion," later shortened to "The Fashion"; closed by Allied Stores in 1969Alternate Link
via ProQuest. * Mr. Wiggs Sandusky based chain that had stores in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, started in Mentor as Bargain Fair in 1956, gradually rebranded stores Mr. Wiggs by 1967Alternate Link
via

.Alternate Link
via

. * Murphy's Mart *

(Lakewood, Ohio) & Warren Village Shopping Center Cleveland, Ohio. Warren Village store burned in 1972, Lakewood store closed in 1978. * O'Neil's Department Store (Akron, Ohio, Akron), merged into May Company Cleveland, in 1989 & then Kaufmann's in 1993, converted to Macy's in 2006 * Ontario's (Columbus, Ohio, Columbus) part of Cook United. * H. & S. Pogue Company ( Cincinnati), division of

. Merged into sister division

(Indianapolis) in the early 1980s, which was converted to Macy's in 2006. * Polsky's (Akron, Ohio, Akron), purchased by Allied Stores in 1955 and closed in 1978Alternate Link
via ProQuest.Alternate Link
via ProQuest. * Rattenberg's, (Utica, Ohio, Utica).Alternate Link
via

. *

(Dayton, Ohio, Dayton), division of Federated Department Stores. Briefly merged into sister division John Shillito Company (Cincinnati) in the early 1980s as Shillito-Rike's. * Rink's Founded by Hyman Ullner in Hamilton in 1951; acquired by Gray Drug, Gray Drug Co. of Cleveland in 1964; Bargain City acquired by Gray Drug in 1967; both chains sold to Cook United in 1981; closed in 1987.Alternate Link
via

. * Rollman's (Cincinnati) Downtown store location—N.W. corner of 5th and Vine Streets—was taken over by Mabley & Carew after primary and branch Rollman's stores were liquidated in the early 1960s * Rudin's (Mount Vernon, Ohio, Mount Vernon), sold to Uhlman's in 1979 * John Shillito Company (Cincinnati), division of Federated Department Stores. Briefly merged into sister division Rike-Kumler Company (Dayton) in the early 1980s as Shillito-Rike's, and then with sister division Lazarus (department store), F&R Lazarus (Columbus). Select locations converted to Macy's 2006. * Stein's, Toledo * Sterling-Lindner Co., Sterling-Lindner-Davis (Cleveland), closed September, 1968; was a part of Allied StoresAlternate Link
via ProQuest.Alternate Link
via ProQuest. * Stern and Mann (Canton, Ohio, Canton), opened in 1887, close by the early 1990sLink
via ProQuest. * Strouss (Youngstown, Ohio, Youngstown), division of May Department Stores, merged into May's Kaufmann's (Pittsburgh) division, converted to Macy's 2006 * Swallen's (Cincinnati, Ohio), bankrupt in 1995Alternate Link
via NewsBank.Link
via NewsBank. * The Fashion (store) (Columbus, Ohio), purchased by Allied Stores in 1949;Alternate Link
via ProQuest. later merged with Morehouse Martens to form "Morehouse Fashion"; Later returned to The Fashion * William Taylor & Son (Cleveland), also known at Taylor's, acquired by May Company in 1939, closed in December, 1961. Southgate branch changed to May Company * Tiedtke's (Toledo, Ohio, Toledo) * Uhler's (Marion, Ohio) Founded as the Uhler Phillips Company. James Phillips left the company following the scandal that linked his wife Carrie Phillips with President Warren G. Harding. * Uhlman's (Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green), also known as F.W. Uhlman in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, purchased by Stage Stores Inc. in 1996 * Uncle Bill's, a northeast Ohio chain that was part of Cook's (department store), Cook United stores. * Union Company (department store), Union Company (Columbus, Ohio, Columbus), purchased by Marshall Fields in 1980 and converted to Halle Brothers which was also owned by Marshall FieldsAlternate Link
via ProQuest. * Valley View (Brookfield), operated 1959–1995. * Value City Sold by Schottenstein holdings of Columbus, re-branded as Halle's in 1980 and closed in 1983 * Van Leunen's (Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati), closed in 1994 when parent company decided to focus on sporting goodsLink
via ProQuest. * Edward Wren Co. (Springfield, Ohio, Springfield), also was known as Wren's, sold to Allied Stores in 1952, merged with & rebranded as

(

) in 1984, closed 1987 * Zayre was a chain of discount stores that operated in the eastern half of the United States from 1956 to 1990, later sold to Ames (store) * Ziegler's (Medina, Ohio, Medina), opened in 1904, closed in 1992

Oklahoma

* John A. Brown (department store), John A. Brown (Oklahoma City), was part of

; absorbed by

Oregon

(was part of

) * Olds, Wortman & King (Portland, Oregon, Portland) *

(also known as Troutman's Emporium) * Meier & Frank *G.I. Joe's

Pennsylvania

* Ames *

(Newark and other NJ locations), division of R.H. Macy, most former locations switched to Macy's in 1986 * Best Products, BEST * Big N (1960s) * Bloom Brothers Department Stores (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Chambersburg, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Waynesboro, Dry Run, Pennsylvania, Dry Run, and Burnt Cabins, Pennsylvania, Burnt Cabins; also Baltimore, Maryland), 1897–1944 * Boston Store (Erie, Pennsylvania), Boston Store (Erie, Pennsylvania, Erie) * Bradlees *

(Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown) * Caldor * Cox's (McKeesport, Pennsylvania, McKeesport), 1955–1983 *

( Philadelphia area) *

, closed in 1994 * Fowler, Dick & Walker, The Boston Store (downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre), converted to Boscov's * Frank & Seder Building (Pittsburgh), Frank & Seder (Pittsburgh) * G.C. Murphy, GC Murphy Co. (Pittsburgh & suburbs) * Gee Bee Department Stores * Gimbels ( Philadelphia, Downtown Pittsburgh and suburbs) * Globe Department Store, The Globe Store (Scranton, Pennsylvania, Scranton), closed in 1994 * Glosser Brothers * Gold Circle * W.T. Grant, (W.T.) Grant's Department Store (Sayre, Pennsylvania, Sayre) * Hess's (Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown), closed in 1996 *

* Horne's (Pittsburgh), closed in 1994 *

* J.M. Fields *

or Wanamaker's ( Philadelphia), sold to Carter Hawley Hale in 1979, then Washington, DC-based Woodward & Lothrop owned by

; sold to May Company ( Hecht's) in 1995; merged with Federated Department Stores in 2005 (now known as Macy's, Inc.) *

(Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Uniontown) * Kaufmann's (Pittsburgh), converted to Macy's 2006 * S. Klein (Broomall) *

(Pittsburgh and Suburbs) (S.S. Kresge was also the founder of K-Mart Stores) * S. H. Kress & Co. (Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, Nanticoke) * Laneco (Easton, Pennsylvania, Easton) * Lazarus (Downtown Pittsburgh and suburbs) - now Macy's * Leh's (department store), Leh's (Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown area), closed in 1994 * Lit Brothers ( Philadelphia), closed in 1977 * LL Stearns Williamsport, Pennsylvania * McCrory Stores, McCrory * Montgomery Ward * Murphy's Mart (Pittsburgh and Suburbs) * J.J. Newberry (multiple locations) * Orr's (department store), Orr's (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Bethlehem, Easton, Pennsylvania, Easton), closed in 1993 * Penn Traffic * Service Merchandise * Snellenburg's (Philadelphia area), 1869-1962 * Strawbridge's, Strawbridge & Clothier (Philadelphia), converted to Macy's 2006 * Towers Department Stores, Towers (Pittsburgh and suburbs) * Trader Horn (Butler) *

Department Store * The Bon-Ton Department Store (Based in York, Pa.) * Watt & Shand (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lancaster), sold to The Bon-Ton * F.W. Woolworth Company, Woolworth's (Pittsburgh and suburbs) * Zayre (Pittsburgh & suburbs)

Rhode Island

* Apex Stores (flagship in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Pawtucket) * The Outlet Company (Providence) * Shepard Company Building, The Shepard Co. (Providence) * Benny's, a discount store based in Smithfield, Rhode Island, Smithfield that had locations in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. All locations closed in December 2017. * Ann & Hope (Cumberland, Rhode Island, Cumberland) Downgraded in 2001 closed all outlet stores in 2020. South Carolina J.B. White

South Dakota

* Fantle's

Tennessee

* Bry's (Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis), sold to the parent company of Lowenstein's in 1956 before going out of business * Cain-Sloan (Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville), absorbed by

* Castner Knott (Nashville), division of Mercantile Stores Company * Fazio's * Gerber's (Memphis), closed in 1975 *

(Memphis), Merged into Rich's, later converted to Macy's * Harvey's (department store), Harvey's (Nashville) * Julius Lewis (Memphis) * Loveman's (Chattanooga), Loveman's (Chattanooga, Tennessee, Chattanooga), acquired by Proffitt's in 1986 * Miller's of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee, Knoxville), sold to Hess's in 1987 * Parisian acquired by Belk in 2007 * Proffitt's (Alcoa, Tennessee, Alcoa), converted to Belk stores in 2006

Texas

* Barker's (San Antonio) * Cox's (Waco, Texas, Waco), closed in 1995 * Dunlaps (Lubbock and many other West Texas/New Mexico locations), closed in 2007 * The Fair (Galveston) * Fedway (Wichita Falls, Longview, Texas, Longview, Amarillo, Midland, Texas, Midland, Corpus Christi, Texas, Corpus Christi), a division of Federated Department Stores that had existed in Texas from 1952 to 1968 in which stores were opened in expanding post-World War II markets of Texas and later the rest of the Southwest that were traditionally under served by existing chains; the first store opening in Wichita Falls in 1952; after expanding throughout Texas, chain expanded into New Mexico, Oklahoma, and CaliforniaAlternate Link
via ProQuest.Alternate Link
via ProQuest. * Foley's, Foley's (Foley Brothers) (Houston), division of The May Department Stores Company, May Company, converted to Macy's in 2006 * Frost Bros. (San Antonio) * Gemco (Houston) * Joske's (San Antonio, also Houston and Dallas), acquired by

in 1987 * Mitchell's (Fort Worth) *My Shoes (San Antonio, 1988, Tagline "Put Yourself in My Shoes") * The Popular (Department Store), The Popular (El Paso) * Sakowitz (Houston) * Sanger-Harris (Dallas), division of Federated Department Stores, merged into sister division

(Houston) in 1987, converted to Macy's in 2006 **

(Dallas) * Stripling & Cox (Fort Worth) ** Cox's (Fort Worth) merged with W.C. Stripling & Sons ** W.C. Stripling & Sons (Fort Worth), merged with Cox's * Titche-Goettinger (Dallas area), merged with Joske's in 1979

Utah

* Mervyns (the chain may come back, by the Morris decisions) * Fred Meyer ** Grand Central Stores, acquired by Fred Meyer Fred Meyer#Acquisitions of Grand Central and Smith's, 1985, acquired 1999 by Kroger in a merger and operations assumed by Smith's Food and Drug, Smith's Food and Drug Stores (now a separate division of Kroger and converted into Smith's Food and Drug#Smith's Marketplace, Smith's Marketplace) * ZCMI (Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution), founded and operated by the LDS Church until purchased by May Company (1999), became Meier and Frank in 2003, some stores sold to Dillard's, others became Macy's in 2005

Vermont

* Britts Department Store (Springfield, Vermont, Springfield) * Grand Way (South Burlington, Vermont, South Burlington)

Virginia

* Hechts (bought by The May Department Stores Company in 1959, took over Thalhimer's and Miller & Rhoads in 1990, bought by Federated Department Stores in 2005 and spun off into Macy's East and Macy's South in 2006) * Heironimus, S.H. Heironimus (Roanoke, Virginia, Roanoke) * Miller & Rhoads (Richmond, Virginia, Richmond) * Rices Nachmans, formerly the Rices and Nachmans chains (Norfolk/Hampton Roads metro area) * Thalhimers (Richmond)

Washington (state), Washington

* The Crescent (department store), The Crescent (Spokane, Washington, Spokane), a division of B.A.T.U.S *

(Seattle), division of

(Chicago) * Lamonts * Peoples (store), Peoples (Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma), 7-store chain in the Puget Sound region, owned by Mercantile Stores Co.; closed in 1983 * Rhodes Brothers (Tacoma), renamed Liberty House in 1974 * Valu-Mart (Seattle), renamed Leslie's in 1974, acquired by Fred Meyer in 1976 * Wigwam Stores Inc. (based in Seattle) *

(Burien, Washington, Burien, Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma, Shoreline, Washington, Shoreline, Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue, Everett, Washington, Everett), 1969 to 1972

West Virginia

* Ames various locations * The Diamond (department store), The Diamond (Charleston and Vienna, West Virginia, Vienna) * Gee Bee Department Stores, Gee Bee Part of Glosser Brothers of Ohio. * Heck's Department Store, shuttered in the early 1990s * Hills (store), Hills * L.A. Joe Department Store * G. C. Murphy * Stone & Thomas, West Virginia's biggest department store chain; bought by Elder-Beerman in 1998 * Watson's (United States), Watson's

Wisconsin

* Chapman's (Milwaukee) * Copps Department Store (Stevens Point), their department stores closed 1984, when Copps decided to shift their focus over to their supermarkets. * Gimbels (Milwaukee), converted to Marshall Field's then one former Gimbels location (Madison, Wisconsin, Madison) to Macy's 2006. * Hoff Department Store (Mount Horeb) closed 1984 * H.C. Prange Co. (Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Sheboygan), sold to Younkers in 1992 *

(De Pere, Wisconsin, De Pere), spun off in 1990 by H.C. Prange Co.; closed 1996 * Schuster's (Milwaukee), bought by Gimbels in 1962 * Shopko (Green Bay), June 2019 * Roth Brothers (Superior), founded pre-1900 as the "Bee Hive Bazaar."

References

External links

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Emory University
Muse's Department Store (Atlanta, Ga.) records
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