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The Wilson Building at Main and Ervay Streets in downtown Dallas housed Titche-Goettinger between 1904 and 1929. Today it is a luxury-apartment building. The downtown Dallas flagship store is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a key contributing structure in Dallas' Harwood Historic District and Main Street District.
Named for its founder, Simon David opened in 1889 [1] as the first food retailer and deliverer in Dallas to specialize in out-of-season items and imported merchandise. . Originally a small brick structure adjacent to Mr. David's home in Uptown Dallas' historic State Thomas neighborhood, the business expanded to 4311 Oak Lawn Avenue in the 1920s and thrived under the supervision of second ...
In 1902, Edward Titche formed a partnership with Max Goettinger and the two established Titche–Goettinger, a department store, on the southeast corner of Elm and Murphy Streets in downtown Dallas. [3] By 1904, operations had outgrown the Elm/Murphy location and the store moved to the year-old Wilson Building.
NorthPark was the home of Texas' first H&M, a fashion label from Sweden. H&M has since closed its NorthPark Center store, and opened other locations in Texas. [12] The American Film Institute's Dallas International Film Festival was sponsored by NorthPark Center in 2009. The event was held in the AMC NorthPark 15 Theater, which also hosted ...
The building, located on Lamar Street between Elm and Main, was the flagship location of the Sanger Brothers department store chain. [ 3 ] In 1965, four years after Sanger Brothers was merged with A. Harris & Co. into Sanger–Harris, the store was closed and replaced by a new flagship at Pacific and Akard.
In the mid-1980s, the store received a new name, 32 Mott Street General Store, and in 2003, it closed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, The New York Times reported.
The East Dallas family farm land of 600 plus acres was purchased in 1937. The abstract completed at that time traces the ownership of the land back to the original owner who had been rewarded the land for his service in the Battle Of San Jacinto by the then governor of Texas in 1836. The history of the land as it went from owner to owner was ...
Harris-Savage Home (RTHL #17586, [20] 2013), 5703 Swiss Ave.—Constructed in 1917 for P.A. Ritter, later occupants of the home included William A. Turner, a Texas oil field pioneer, and W.R. Harris, who was a prosecutor during the impeachment of Texas Governor James Ferguson by the Texas Legislature, and Wallace Savage, a former mayor of Dallas.