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 chains 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 aspec ...

that involved

Federated Department Stores 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 ...

and

The May Department Stores Company The May Department Stores Company was an American department store holding company, formerly headquartered in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by David May in 1877, moving to St. Louis in 1905. After many ...

with many stores becoming units of

Macy's, Inc. 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' ...

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 Abraham & Straus, commonly shortened to A&S, was a major New York City department store, based in Brooklyn. Founded in 1865, it became part of Federated Department Stores in 1929. Shortly after Federated's 1994 acquisition of R.H. Macy & Company ...

(

Macy's Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated wi ...

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 m ...

(Macy's in 1986) * The Bon Marché (Macy's in 2005) ** C.C. Anderson's Golden Rule ( The Bon Marché in 1923) *

Bullock's Bullock's was a chain of full-line department stores from 1907 through 1995, headquartered in Los Angeles, growing to operate across California, Arizona and Nevada. Bullock's also operated as many as seven more upscale Bullocks Wilshire special ...

(Macy's in 1996) **

Bullocks Wilshire Bullocks Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, is a Art Deco building. The building opened in September 1929 as a luxury department store for owner John G. Bullock (owner of the more mainstream Bullock's in D ...

* 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 the United States, Gulf Coast of Florida. The Maas Brothers bran ...

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 (

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. ** Emporium-Capwell (

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) *** Capwell's (

East Bay The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. The region has grown to include inland communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties ...

) *** The Emporium (

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17t ...

and South Bay, North Bay) ** Hale Bros. (San Francisco and

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) ** Weinstock's (Sacramento and

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) * 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, 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 wor ...

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, Shilli ...

( Rike's) ** William H. Block Co. (Blocks) ** Joseph Horne Co. ( Horne's) ** Herpolsheimer's * Famous-Barr (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 Filene's (formally William Filene & Sons Co.) was an American department store chain; it was founded by William Filene in 1881. The success of the original full-line store in Boston, Massachusetts, was supplemented by the foundation of its off-pr ...

(Macy's in 2006) ** Filene's Basement (separated from

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 ...

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

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Gold Circle Gold Circle was a discount department store chain based in Ohio. Founded in 1967, it was a division of Federated Department Stores with 76 stores when the chain was sold and dismantled in 1988. History Covering mostly New York, Ohio, Kentucky ...

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

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 Hecht's, also known as Hecht Brothers, Hecht Bros. and the Hecht Company, was a large chain of department stores that operated mainly in the mid-Atlantic and southern region of the United States. The firm originated in Baltimore, Maryland. By 20 ...

(Macy's in 2006) **

Castner Knott Castner Knott was a Nashville, Tennessee-based regional department store chain which operated stores in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The chain was in business for a century from 1898 to 1998, in its later years as a division of Mercantile ...

(Hecht's in 1998) ** Miller & Rhoads (Hecht's in 1990) ** Strawbridge's (Macy's in 2006) **

Thalhimers Thalhimers was a department store in the Southern United States. Based in Richmond, Virginia, the venerable chain at its peak operated dozens of stores in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and one store in Memphis, Tennessee. Thalhimer's ...

(Hecht's in 1990) **

Woodward & Lothrop Woodward & Lothrop was a department store chain headquartered in Washington, D.C. that began as the capital's first department store in 1887. Woodies, as it was often nicknamed, maintained stores in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Its flagship ...

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. 1988–1994; most stores closed 1988–1993, remainder of stores converted to Macy's West and

or sold to

Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue (originally Saks & Company; colloquially Saks) is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in New York City and founded by Andrew Saks. The original store opened in the F Street shopping district of Washingt ...

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location eventually incorporated into adjacent Macy's. *

John Wanamaker John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838December 12, 1922) was an American merchant and religious, civic and political figure, considered by some to be a proponent of advertising and a "pioneer in marketing". He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a ...

Wanamaker's John Wanamaker Department Store was one of the first department stores in the United States. Founded by John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, it was influential in the development of the retail industry including as the first store to use price tags. ...

(

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and

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flagship stores), sold to Carter Hawley Hale in 1979, then Washington, DC-based Woodward & Lothrop owned by

Alfred Taubman Adolph Alfred "Al" Taubman (January 31, 1924 – April 17, 2015) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was convicted in 2002 for a price-fixing scheme involving the top two auction houses in the United States. Backgro ...

; sold to May Company in 1995; merged with

in 2005 (now known as Macy's, Inc.) * The Jones Store (Macy's in 2006) *

Jordan Marsh Jordan Marsh (officially Jordan Marsh & Company) was an American department store chain that was headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and operated throughout New England. It was founded by Eben Dyer Jordan and Benjamin L. Marsh in 1841. The ...

(Macy's in 1996) *

Kaufmann's Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Summary The store was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann, patron of the famous Fallingwater house. In the post-war years, the store became a regio ...

(Offices merged with Filene's in 2002, Macy's in 2006) **

May Company Ohio The May Company Ohio was a chain of department stores that was based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. History In 1899, David May, the founder of May Department Stores, acquired E. R. Hull & Dutton Co. of Cleveland on Ontario Street, renam ...

*** O'Neil's (department store) **

Sibley's Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company, known informally as Sibley's, was a Rochester, New York-based department store chain with stores located exclusively in the state of New York. Its flagship store, at 228 East Main Street in downtown Rochester, als ...

** Strouss-Hirshberg * L.S. Ayres (Macy's in 2006) ** Stewart's ** H. & S. Pogue Company * Liberty House (Macy's in 2001) *

Marshall Field's 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 ...

(Macy's in 2006) **

Dayton's Dayton's was an American department store chain founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1902 by George Draper Dayton. It operated several local high end department stores throughout Minnesota and the Upper Midwest for almost 100 years. Although it ...

(

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 Field ...

(defunct in 1992) ***

The Crescent (department store) The Crescent was a small chain of department stores founded and based in Spokane, Washington. Once a subsidiary of Marshall Field & Company, the chain was sold to BATUS Retail Group in 1982. BATUS renamed the stores Frederick & Nelson, the co ...

(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 build ...

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 The J. L. Hudson Company (commonly known simply as Hudson's) was an upscale retail department store chain based in Detroit, Michigan. Hudson's flagship store, on Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit (demolished October 24, 1998), was the tallest ...

(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 Robinsons-May was a chain of department stores operating in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada, from 1993 until 2006. It was created when May Department Stores combined two of its chains, May Company California and J. W. Robinson's cha ...

(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 Californ ...

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 Stern's (originally Stern Brothers) was a regional department store chain serving the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The chain was in business for more than 130 years. In 2001, Stern's parent company Federated Departmen ...

(Macy's in 2001) ** Gertz

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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 Caldor, Inc. was a discount department store chain founded in 1951 by husband and wife Carl and Dorothy Bennett. Referred to by many as the Bloomingdale's of discounting, Caldor grew from a second story "Walk-Up-&-Save" operation in Port Ches ...

, Service Merchandise, Venture,

Woolco Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At i ...

, and Zayre were national discount stores that closed due to changes in shopping places and patterns, and/or large debt from

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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, ...

(based in

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) * 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 fa ...

(Midwest/Great Lakes States-Based out of Indianapolis) Was discount chain of L.S. Ayres & Co. that eventually became Target Stores. * L.S. Ayres (Indianapolis-Midwest/ Great Lakes states) Was eventually sold to May Department Stores and finally became Macy's. *

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and its subsidiaries: Bergner's, Boston Store (Wisconsin), Carson's,

Elder-Beerman The Elder-Beerman Stores Corp., commonly known as Elder-Beerman, was an American chain of department stores founded in 1883 and whose last stores closed in 2018. The chain, based primarily in the Midwestern United States, was composed of 31 stor ...

, Herberger's and Younkers. * Bradlees (based in

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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 working ...

(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 st ...

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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 * G. E. M. Membership Department Stores (national/

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Gibson's Discount Center Gibson's Discount Center, also known as Gibson's, was a large discount store chain in the United States. There are a few Gibson's Discount Centers still operating under independent ownership; two in Texas in Weatherford and Kerrville, and two ...

, 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 an ...

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

Howard Brothers Discount Stores Howard Brothers Discount Stores (informally known as Howard Brothers and Howard's) was a chain of discount stores in the Southeastern United States. The chain was founded in 1959 by Alton Hardy Howard and W. L. "Jack" Howard, a five-term mayor o ...

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Jamesway Jamesway Corporation, more commonly known as Jamesway, was a chain of 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 that, at its peak, ...

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

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Belk Belk, Inc. is an American department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina, with nearly 300 locations in 16 states. Belk stores and Belk.com offer apparel, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings, a ...

in 1997 *

Lord & Taylor Lord & Taylor was the oldest brick and mortar department store in the United States, in business from 1826 to 2020. The brand was purchased during former owner Le Tote's 2020 liquidation bankruptcy and relaunched by new owner, Saadia Group, as ...

, the oldest department store chain in the

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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 McCrory Stores or J.G. McCrory's was a chain of five and dime stores in the United States based in York, Pennsylvania. The stores typically sold shoes, clothing, housewares, fabrics, penny candy, toys, cosmetics, and often included a lunch co ...

(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 Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a world-pioneering mail-order business and later also a leading department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The curr ...

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) * Neisner's * Odd Job Stores, Inc. (located in the northeast and midwestern U.S.), acquired by Amazing Savings in 2003 and went bankrupt in 2005 * P.N. Hirsch, acquired by

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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- ...

in 1983 and rebranded * Schultz's Family Stores, 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 operat ...

in 1989 *

Sears Roebuck Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

, 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 liquida ...

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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 ...

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Value City Value City was an American discount department store chain with 113 locations. It was founded in 1917 by Ephraim Schottenstein, a travelling salesman in central Ohio. The store was an off-price retailer that sold clothing, jewelry, and home good ...

(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. *

, founded by the F.W. Woolworth Company as a full-line discount department store * Zayre (

, Mid-Atlantic,

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McRae's McRae's was a mid-range regional department store chain founded and based in Jackson, Mississippi, with locations in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida. The nameplate was in existence for more than a century. History Samuel P. McRae fo ...

1987, renamed later that year *

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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 ...

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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 *

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, 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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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 ...

: Walker's (Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego), main store in downtown Los Angeles was also known as the Fifth Street Store since it was located at the corner of Fifth and Broadway, main store was founded in 1905 as Steele, Faris, Walker Co., later became Muse, Faris, Walker Co., and then finally Walker Inc. in 1924; opened first branch store in Long Beach in the late 1920s; opened a branch store in San Diego in 1935; San Diego store separated in the early 1950s; opened second Long Beach store in 1954; closed Los Angeles store; sold Long Beach stores in 1960 and store renamedAlternate Link
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. * Frink's (Pasadena), founded by Jose and Lola Frink in the early twentieth century, but closed by mid-century * Gemco * Globe Department Store, South

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(1920s-1930s) * Gottschalks, bankrupt March 31, 2009, which closed all of the stores. A few former Gottschalks stores were replaced as

and

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in the Pacific region. There were plans to reopen stores in Auburn, Clovis 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 ...

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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 ( Berkeley), also known as J.F. Hink & Son, closed in 1985 * Hinshaw's ( Arcadia 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 18 ...

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(San Francisco), converted to Macy's * Joseph Magnin Co., closed 1984 *

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San Diego, 3 branches, purchased by The Broadway in the 1960s * Mattei Bros. ( Petaluma) – closed in 1995 * May Company (Los Angeles), merged with Robinsons and became

, 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 (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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Pic 'N' Save Pic 'N' Save Corporation (later MacFrugals) was at one time the second-largest closeout retail chain in the United States. Financial troubles caused the chain to close many stores in the late 1990s and early 2000s. History William Zimmerman fou ...

, became Big Lots * Prager's (

), 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 San ...

, Downtown Santa Ana and Orangefair Center, Fullerton *

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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 (

), 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

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* Sage's 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 Silverwoods, originally promoted as F. B. Silverwood, after its founder, was a men's clothing store chain founded in Los Angeles in 1894 by Francis Bernard (F.B. "Daddy") Silverwood, a Canadian-American originally from near Lindsay, Ontario. He was ...

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

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, 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

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(San Francisco), closed in 1965 * Whole Earth Access ( Berkeley), last stores closed in 1998 *

Wineman's Wineman's was a chain of department stores in Southern and Central California which started in Ventura in 1890, and later became iconic local department stores of Oxnard and, later, Huntington Park. Origins (1890-1920) Wineman's first opened a 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

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Grocery Stores in 1986

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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 ...

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 * Fashion Bar

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( Rocky Hill) * Arlan's Department Store ( Waterbury) *

( 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 (

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), closed 2000 * G. Fox & Co. (

Hartford Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since t ...

), ( Downtown Hartford) flagship closed and all branches merged into

1993, and most converted to

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 sever ...

( D.M. Read) (

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), merged into

* Shartenberg's Department Store (1915–1962), Downtown New Haven. Razed in 1964 as part of Mayor Richard C. Lee's redevelopment plans. *

( Newington) * Shoppers Fair

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* Almart *

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, inc ...

* Hess's ( Blue Hen Mall Dover, DE, and Seaford, DE) *

( 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

in 2005 (now known as Macy's, Inc.) *

* 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 ...

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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 *

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, acquired by

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. *

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and closed 1995 after briefly acquiring and operating John Wanamaker & Company (

)

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and ...

* Brown's Department Stores (Dania Beach, Hollywood, Pompano Beach) * Burdines (

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), merged with

Macy’s Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated wi ...

in 2005 * Cohen Brothers (

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), purchased by May in 1959; renamed May-Cohen * Furchgott's (

) * Gold Triangle (Miami, Plantation, Tampa, Orlando) *

Ivey's Ivey's (J.B. Ivey & Company), a former department store chain, was acquired by Dillard's, Inc. in 1990. Ivey's was based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was founded in 1900 by Joseph Benjamin (J. B.) Ivey. History J. B. Ivey opened the first Iv ...

(Winter Park), purchased by

in 1990 * Jackson Byron's (later J. Byrons) (

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(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 C ...

), 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 ...

, sold to Belk in 2006 * Richard's, ( Miami, Hollywood) *

Robinson's of Florida Robinson's of Florida was a chain of department stores on Florida's Gulf Coast and Orlando and based in St. Petersburg, Florida, starting with a store at Tyrone Square Mall in 1972. It had been founded in the 1970s as an attempt by Associated Dry G ...

( St. Petersburg) *

Gayfers 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 ...

(

Clearwater, Florida Clearwater is a city located in Pinellas County, Florida, United States, northwest of Tampa and St. Petersburg. To the west of Clearwater lies the Gulf of Mexico and to the southeast lies Tampa Bay. As of the 2020 census, the city had a popu ...

) * Parisian, sold to

in 2007 * W. T. Grant (discount,

) *

(

, South Daytona and other locations) * Zayre (discount,

and other locations)

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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 (

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), 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 (Atlanta), also locations in

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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 Cou ...

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 ente ...

; 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

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* Liberty House (

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)

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* 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

. Not to be confused with the Indianapolis-based William H. Block Co. which was also known as "Block's". * Idaho Department Store (southern Idaho)

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-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

. 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 King's Variety Store was a chain of discount stores founded in 1915 by M.H. King in Burley, Idaho. At its peak, King's had 27 stores in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregio ...

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* A. M. Rothschild & Co * Ames * Famous Department Store (Ottawa) closed in 1983 * The Fair (Chicago and suburbs), acquired by

in 1958 * Gately's People's Store *

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 t ...

(Chicago), some stores acquired by

* K's Merchandise Mart ( Decatur) *

Lewis's Lewis's was a chain of British department stores that operated from 1856 to 2010. The owners of Lewis's have gone into administration many times over the years, including 1991. The first store, which opened in Liverpool city centre, became ...

(Champaign) * Robeson's (Champaign) * Henry C. Lytton & Co. (Chicago, with branch in

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) *Madigans * MainStreet Chicago, acquired by

Kohl's Kohl's (stylized in all caps) is an American department store retail chain, operated by Kohl's Corporation. it is the largest department store chain in the United States, with 1,165 locations, operating stores in every U.S. state except Haw ...

in 1988 *

(Chicago), acquired by Macy's September 2006 despite local protest * McCabe's (Rock Island) * McDade's *

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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/

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. *

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 ...

* Chas A. Stevens (Chicago) Purchased by Hartmarx Corp. before being closed. * Turn Style ( Melrose Park), created by The Jewel Companies, Inc., sold to

in 1978 *

* Wieboldt's (Chicago) * Zayre (Chicago)

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* Aldens (

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) *

(

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, 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 fa ...

, subsequently acquired by

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* L.S. Ayres (Indianapolis, 6 stores, and statewide) * Ball Stores ( Muncie) * William H. Block Co. (Indianapolis, statewide), also was known as Block's * Danner's Discount Department Stores (Indianapolis, statewide), several locations also known as 3D Discount * DeJong's (

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) Purchased by Hartmarx Corp. and resold before being closed * Fetla's ( Valparaiso) * The Giant Store ( Anderson) *

(South Bend) *

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( Gary) * Heck's (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 an ...

(Indianapolis) * K&S Department Store ( Kokomo) * George H. Knollenberg Co. (

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

), founded in 1923 and was acquired by

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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.Alternate Link
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. * Edward C. Minas Co. ( Hammond), also had a branch store in Calumet City, Illinois at

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* Root Dry Goods Co. (

) First opened in 1856 and operated until 1998 when it was sold to

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

) * Schultz's Family Stores (statewide and Illinois) *

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(Indianapolis) * Weiler's Banner-Fair Incorporated ( Anderson, Portland and Hartford City) * The Wicks Co. ( Bloomington), operated between 1891 and 1976. * Wolf & Dessauer (Fort Wayne,

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and Southtown, and Huntington), purchased from City Store Company by

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

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

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* Newman's (Cedar Rapids) * Younkers

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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 Coppel ...

* Henry's (Wichita) * Newman's (Arkansas City) *

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(Wichita)

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* S.W. Anderson's (

Owensboro Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It is the fourth-largest city in the state by population. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 165 about southwest of Lou ...

) * J. Bacon's & Sons "Bacon's" (

Louisville Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. ...

), division of Mercantile Stores Company. All locations merged into sister division McAlpin's (

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line w ...

) 1980s, select locations converted to

1998 with Dillard purchase of Mercantile and the rest closed. * Ben Snyder's (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 int ...

(Louisville), changed to Kaufman's (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 ...

(Indianapolis) in 1969 and rebranded as Ayres * Parson'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 (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

(

) along with H & S Pogue Company (

) in the early 1980s, then Macy's 2006. * Wolfe-Wile Co. (Lexington) * Shopper's Fair (Paducah) ?

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* Beall-Ladymon (Shreveport), purchased from Horace Ladymon by Stage Stores, Inc. in 1994. Stores converted to Stage soon thereafter. * D. H. Holmes (New Orleans), purchased by

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) *

(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

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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 ( Portland) * Ben Franklin's ( Bucksport) *

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

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, Calais, Old Town, Rockland, Portland, Brunswick) * LS Hall Company

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* Mammoth Mart (Bangor, Biddeford, Brunswick, Scarborough, Waterville), Ellsworth * McLellan's ( Waterville, Westbrook) * J.J. Newberry (Lincoln, Millinocket, Calais, Eastport, Ellsworth, Brunswick,

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) * Porteous, Mitchell & Braun (Congress Street, Portland), branch locations in Auburn, Bangor, Brunswick, Presque Isle, South Portland, Newington, New Hampshire and

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* Freese's, Main St Bangor, Maine

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

(Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Maryland suburbs), converted to Macy's 2006 *

Hochschild Kohn's Hochschild Kohn's, also known as Hochschild-Kohn or simply Hochschild's, was a 20th-century American department store chain based in Baltimore, Maryland. It was started in 1897 as a partnership between Max Hochschild, Benno Kohn, and his brother L ...

(Baltimore and Maryland suburbs) * Hutzler's (Baltimore and Maryland suburbs) * S. Klein ( Beltway Plaza,

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) Lansburgh's ( Rockville) * Lazarus (

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) * Rosenbaum Brothers (Cumberland) * Stewart's (Baltimore and Maryland suburbs) * Sunny's Surplus (Baltimore, Dundalk, Elkridge, Towson) *

''aka'' Woodies (Washington, D. C. and Maryland suburbs)

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

Ann & Hope Ann & Hope was a Rhode Island–based retailer that pioneered practices now common in modern big box stores. The company was named after the ship ''Ann and Hope'' which was lost at sea off Block Island, Rhode Island in 1806. They operated from 19 ...

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

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* The Bon Marché (Lowell), later merged into

* Bradlees (

, Somerset, Massachusetts) * Building #19, Swansea, Massachusetts,

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* Denholm & McKay (Worcester), two branches at one time *

(Boston), converted to Macy's 2006 * Filene's Basement (Boston), separated from parent Filene's in 1988, closed 2011 *

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( Springfield * Gilchrist's (Boston) * W. T. Grant, bankrupt in 1976,

, Somerset, Massachusetts * J.M. Fields, Fall River, Massachusetts Chelmsford, Massachusetts *

(Boston), converted to

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 Lechmere ( "leech-meer") was a Massachusetts-based chain of retail stores that closed in 1997. At the time of its closing, it had 27 stores, including 20 in New England. The chain offered electronics, appliances, and various household goods. It a ...

, originally Lechmere Sales (Cambridge), closed 1997,

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* Mammoth Mart (flagship store in

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

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and other locations), closed 1997 * Spag's (

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), 1936–2004, sold to Building #19 * R. H. Stearns and Company (Boston) * Service Merchandise * Stuart's Department Store (Lowell) * Zayre (Framingham),

* Wilson's (

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)

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* Arbaugh's of Lansing, also known as Cameron & Arbaugh. See The Arbaugh. * Arlan's Department Store (

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at t ...

) though not opened in Detroit until 1960s expansion, founded in 1945, bankrupt in 1973 * Billings Five and Dime Store,

Bay City, Michigan Bay City is a city and county seat of Bay County in the U.S. state of Michigan, located near the base of the Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 34,932, and it is the principal city of the Bay City Met ...

* Ciechanowski`s Dry Goods.

Hamtramck Hamtramck ( ) is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 28,433. Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion that borders the fellow enclave city of Hi ...

* Crowley's, a/k/a Crowley Milner (Detroit), sold to

in 1999 *

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Korvette's Founded 1948, Bankrupt 1980 * The Fair (

Lansing Lansing () is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644, maki ...

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) * Federal's (Detroit), discount department store, closed in 1980. * Getz's Marquette, with over a 100-year history, still operating. * Gilmore Brother's 1881-1999

Kalamazoo Kalamazoo ( ) is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. At the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropo ...

* Grisdale's Department Store,

* Grand Leader (

Battle Creek Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. It is the principal city of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which e ...

) * 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 (

), 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. *

(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, Ma ...

in 2001, then Macy's in 2006 *

Jacobson's Jacobson's was an American regional department store chain. Based in Jackson, Michigan, the chain operated primarily in Michigan and Florida, but also had stores in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Kansas. Jacobson's focused on apparel, fine j ...

founded in

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. Independent regional luxury department store chain located primarily in

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and

, but also operated stores in

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. The last store closed its doors in early 2002. Then, one store in

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was re-established as Jacobson's in 2004. * J.B. Perry, Port Huron *Kahn's Department Store,

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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 co ...

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

* Kresge's and S. S. Kresge (

) (incorporated in 1899), later Kmart (United States), 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 (department store), 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,

* Mack & Co. (originally Mack & Schmid) located at Liberty and Main Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the building that eventually housed the later Pretzel Bell. It was in business from the end of the 19th Century to 1940. *John H. Maurer Bargain Store, Cadillac, Michigan, Cadillac *Mill End, Bay City, Michigan, Bay City and Clare, Michigan, Clare * Milliken's, Traverse City and Manistee, Michigan. See William Milliken. * Mitzelfeld's Department Store, Rochester, Michigan, Rochester *

. Aaron Montgomery Ward, its founder grew up in Niles, Michigan, Niles. Various locations, including Dearborn, Jackson, Harper Woods, Lansing, Southfield, Southgate, Livonia Pontiac, Royal Oak Wyoming Ludington, Manistee, Port Huron, Roseville, Three Rivers. * Neisner's *Norman’s, Bay City, Michigan, Bay City, East Tawas, Michigan, East Tawas, Standish, Michigan, Standish, Traverse City, Michigan, Traverse City *Peebles (store), Peebles, Alpena, Michigan, Alpena * Pizer's Variety Store Harrisville, Michigan, Harrisville, originally The White Store, at the corner of Lake Street and Main Street. * Robinson's,

* Sam's Cut Rate, Detroit * Shoppers Fair * Seitner’s Department Store, Saginaw, Michigan, Saginaw * Sears * B. Siegel & Company, originally Heyns Bazaar. * Smith Bridgman (

) * Steketee's (Grand Rapids) * Teerman's, Holland, Michigan, Holland. * The Fair Savings Bank Department Store, a/k/a The Fair Department Store Escanaba, Michigan, Escanaba See Escanaba Central Historic District. * Toeller's (Battle Creek), sold to L. W. Robinson Co. in 1971 *

(Redford Township), Telegraph & Schoolcraft; (Warren), 13 Mile & Van Dyke; all closed by 1974 * F.B. Watkins, Hopkins, Michigan, Hopkins *The White store Lapeer, Michigan, Lapeer * Winkelman's (Detroit), purchased by Petrie Stores in 1983; closed during bankruptcy in 1998 *Wonderland Discount Department Stores, LaPorte, Indiana, Laporte and Michigan City, Indiana and Dowagiac, Michigan, Dowagiac, Niles, Michigan, 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

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(

), est. 1902, converted to

in 2001, then

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

(Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson), acquired by

in 2006

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* Famous-Barr (St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis), founded 1911, absorbed by

early 1990s, acquired by

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) * Newman's (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

.Link
via

. * Gold and Company (Lincoln, Nebraska, Lincoln), acquired by J. L. Brandeis and Sons Store, J.L. Brandeis and Sons Store in 1964.Link
via

. 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

Nevada

* Ronzone's (Las Vegas et al.)

New Hampshire

* Steinbach (store), Steinbach (Manchester, New Hampshire) Sold to

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

(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

(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

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,

, and upstate New York) * Britt's (Vestal, New York, Vestal) multiple locations including Gloversville/Johnstown *

* Century_21_(department_store), Century 21 * Chappell's (Syracuse, New York, Syracuse), merged into

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

then Macy's * Gimbels (Manhattan). The rivalry of

and Gimbels is immortalized in ''Miracle on 34th Street''; Bernard Gimbel, the owner of Gimbels, along with Horace Saks founded

(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

. No relation to Kobacker's Market, a grocery store in Brewster, New York *

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(

), 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. *

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) * Neisner's 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, Lindsey, & Curr) (Rochester, New York, Rochester, in 1911, unit of

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

* Sisson's (Binghamton) * Alexander Turney Stewart, A.T. Stewart's (Manhattan), purchased by

of Pennsylvania * Times Square Stores, discount department chain mostly focused on Long Island * Twin Fair, Inc. dba Twin Fair (multiple locations) *

(multiple locations) *

(

), sold to Carter Hawley Hale in 1979, then Washington, DC-based Woodward & Lothrop owned by

; sold to May Company in 1995; merged with

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 *

(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)

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

. *

and Fisher's Buckeye-Tempo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Closed 1994 * Frank Brothers (Marion, Ohio), Closed 1979. * Gaylords Department Store, Northeastern Ohio, Giant Tiger until 1968 *

(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 Federal's in 1961Alternate Link
via

.Alternate Link
via

. * 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

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

, 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 (

), unit of Allied Department Stores * May Company Ohio, May Company (Cleveland), merged into

in 1993 and converted to Macy's 2006 * McAlpin's (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

. * 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 * Neisner's (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

in 1993, converted to Macy's in 2006 * Ontario's (Columbus, Ohio, Columbus) part of Cook United. * H. & S. Pogue Company (

), division of

. Merged into sister division L.S. Ayres (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

.Alternate Link
via

. * 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

.Alternate Link
via

. * Stern and Mann (Canton, Ohio, Canton), opened in 1887, close by the early 1990sLink
via

. * 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

. 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

and

, 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

. * Valley View (Brookfield), operated 1959–1995. *

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

. * Edward Wren Co. (Springfield, Ohio, Springfield), also was known as Wren's, sold to Allied Stores in 1952, merged with & rebranded as William H. Block Co. (

) 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) * Emporium (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) *

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

(

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 (

, Downtown Pittsburgh and suburbs) * Globe Department Store, The Globe Store (Scranton, Pennsylvania, Scranton), closed in 1994 * Glosser Brothers *

* 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 *

(

), sold to Carter Hawley Hale in 1979, then Washington, DC-based Woodward & Lothrop owned by

; sold to May Company (

) in 1995; merged with

in 2005 (now known as Macy's, Inc.) * Kaufman's (Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Uniontown) *

(Pittsburgh), converted to Macy's 2006 * S. Klein (Broomall) * Kresge's (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 (

), closed in 1977 * LL Stearns Williamsport, Pennsylvania * McCrory Stores, McCrory *

* 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 *

Department Store (Based in York, Pa.) * Watt & Shand (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lancaster), sold to

* 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. *

(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

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

(Memphis), Merged into Rich's, later converted to

* 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

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

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

.Alternate Link
via

. * 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

in 1959, took over Thalhimer's and Miller & Rhoads in 1990, bought by

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) *

(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) * White Front (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

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

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

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