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The company was the first to introduce the concept of the personal shopper, and that service was provided without charge in every Field's store, right up to the chain's last days under the Marshall Field's name. It was the first store to offer revolving credit and the first department store to use escalators.
Siegel-Cooper began as a discount department store on State Street in the Loop.It was founded by Henry Siegel, Frank H. Cooper and Isaac Keim in 1887.Four years later, the store moved into the eight-story Second Leiter Building at State and Van Buren Street, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, where it stayed until 1930, after a 1914-15 reorganization into Associated Dry Goods Corp., but ...
The Marshall Field and Company Building is a National Historic Landmark retail building on State Street in Chicago, Illinois.Now housing Macy's State Street, the Beaux-Arts and Commercial style complex was designed by architect Daniel Burnham and built in two stages—north end in 1901–02 (including columned entrance) and south end in 1905–06.
The Marshall Field Store demonstrates his ability to adapt this style to a modern commercial premises. The building was supported by an interior framing of wood and iron, and was clad in a rusticated exterior of stonework giving the appearance of an Italian Romanesque palazzo. The exterior design, in which the windows were contained by massive ...
Macy's got its start as America's first department store before the Civil War, and with all the ups and downs of the last 160+ years, the brand still lives on today.
United States historic place Loop Retail Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district State Street in 1907 Show map of Chicago metropolitan area Show map of Illinois Show map of the United States Location Chicago, Illinois Coordinates 41°53′N 87°38′W / 41.883°N 87.633°W / 41.883; -87.633 Area 26 acres (11 ha) Built 1871 Architect ...
The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building in downtown Chicago, Illinois.When it opened in 1930, it was the world's largest building, with 4 million square feet (372,000 m 2) of floor space.
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [6] 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 as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [7]