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Nugents or B. Nugent & Brother Dry Goods Co. was a department store in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri at the southeast corner of Washington Avenue and Broadway. It was the first downtown department store in the United States to open a suburban branch. The dry goods store was founded in 1869 by Byron Nugent (d. 1908) in Mount Vernon, Illinois. He ...
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 ...
Sketch by St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Marguerite Martyn of the opening of the Grand-Leader department store on September 8, 1906. Stix, Baer and Fuller (sometimes called "Stix" or SBF or the Grand-Leader) was a department store chain in St. Louis, Missouri that operated from 1892 to 1984.
Here's a nostalgic look back at what earned these iconic department stores their place in history and what's happened to them since. Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward, Barneys, and Marshall Field's. ...
Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney was a department store founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850, by M.V.L. McClelland and Richard Scruggs as McClelland, Scruggs & Company. [1] The company started out as a Dry goods store, with the first store opened on North 4th street in downtown St. Louis, later expanding. In 1860, William L. Vandervoort joined ...
It was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by David May in 1877, moving to St. Louis in 1905. [2] After many changes in the retail industry, the company merged with Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.) in 2005. This company was only a holding company that bought, sold, and merged regional department stores, such as Foley's and L.S. Ayres ...
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 Stores Company, which was acquired by Federated on August 30, 2005.
Crestwood Court (formerly known as Westfield Shoppingtown Crestwood and Crestwood Plaza) was a shopping mall in Crestwood, Missouri.Opened in 1957, it was the first major mall in the St. Louis area, and one of the first to have more than one department store.