McAlpin's was a
Cincinnati
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-based
department store
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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 suburban site, in the
Western Hills Shopping Center
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.
Two decades later, McAlpin's became a division of
Mercantile Stores. In 1990, Mercantile moved their corporate headquarters to
Fairfield, Ohio
Fairfield is a suburban city located in both Butler and Hamilton counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Fairfield is located approximately 25 miles north of Cincinnati and is situated on the east bank of the Great Miami River. The population w ...
, a suburb of Cincinnati.
As retail companies consolidated, McAlpin's remained roughly the same. That ended in 1998 when McAlpin's parent company, Mercantile, was bought by
Little Rock, Arkansas
( The "Little Rock")
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based
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 ...
. All McAlpin's stores were subsequently converted to the Dillard's name that year except for the one in
Dayton Mall
Dayton Mall is a shopping mall in Miami Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Dayton. The mall's anchor stores are Dick's Sporting Goods, DSW, Guitar Center, H&M, JCPenney, Kirkland's, LensCrafters, Macy's, Morris ...
, which was instead sold to
Elder-Beerman.
The landmark
Downtown Cincinnati
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store closed its doors in 1996. It was restored and reopened as The McAlpin, a 62-unit luxury condominium building.
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Retail companies established in 1852
Defunct department stores based in Cincinnati
Butler County, Ohio
Retail companies disestablished in 1998
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