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Art Van Furniture store, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010. Archie "Art" Van Elslander founded Art Van in 1959, opening his first store in a 4,000 square-foot space at 10 Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue in East Detroit. [3] He expanded to three stores in that same year, and a fourth store opened in 1960. His first employee was not hired until this time. [4]
On March 5, 2020, Art Van Furniture announced it would liquidate all of their company owned stores and file for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Barker Bros. – Los Angeles-based furniture store chain which was at one time the largest furniture store chain on the west coast for nearly a century before it filed for bankruptcy in 1992
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. 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 that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
After Van Raalte took over in 1922, the brand was modified and somewhat simplified, with the text “LIMBERT FURNITURE, TRADEMARK, BY VAN RAALTE CRAFTSMEN, GRAND RAPIDS & HOLLAND MICHIGAN”. By 1928 the brand was called “The Crest of Quality”, and was applied to furniture in a gold and black sticker form. [2]
The Mathias J. Alten House and Studio is a single-family home located at 1593 East Fulton Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan.It was owned and lived in by Mathias Alten, a German-American impressionist painter, from 1914 until his death in 1938. [2]
The oldest sons opened a small furniture shop in 1864, with the other two brothers joining them around when the war ended. Brother George Widdicomb died in March 1866. In 1868 the store had grown considerably and was moved to a new location in Grand Rapids. They had 25 employees. T.F. Richards came into business with the sons on January 1, 1869.
The Steelcase Plants No. 2 and 3 complex contains four buildings: a single-story brick factory building with a monitor roof constructed in 1908, a four-story brick industrial loft-type factory building constructed between 1926 and 1930, a brick power plant also constructed in 1926, and a single-story concrete block building constructed in 1953.
In 1874, the new company opened their six-story factory, complete with wholesale and retail showrooms, in Grand Rapids. [2] By 1882, this factory covered three city blocks. [ 3 ] The company is known for making Victorian furniture.