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Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It has been a sister brand to the Bloomingdale's department store chain since being acquired by holding company Federated Department Stores in 1994, which renamed itself Macy's, Inc. in 2007. It is the largest department store ...
R.H. Macy's monument at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. In 1875, Macy took on two partners, Robert M. Valentine (1850–1879), a nephew; and Abiel T. La Forge (1842–1878) of Wisconsin, who was the husband of a cousin. [7] [8] Macy died on March 29, 1877, in Paris of Bright's disease. [9] He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.
Macy's Herald Square (originally named the R. H. Macy and Company Store) is the flagship of Macy's department store, as well as the Macy's, Inc. corporate headquarters, on Herald Square in Manhattan, New York City. The building's 2.5 million square feet (230,000 m 2 ), [4] which includes 1.25 million square feet (116,000 m 2) of retail space ...
Macy's Union Square. Coordinates: 37.78702°N 122.40738°W. Signage on oldest part of the store, O'Farrell and Stockton. Macy's Union Square (the location of the Macy's department store chain located on San Francisco 's Union Square) is one of the retailer's largest and oldest locations, long the flagship of Macy's California, then Macy's West.
The history of New York City (1855–1897) started with the inauguration in 1855 of Fernando Wood as the first mayor from Tammany Hall, an institution that dominated the city throughout this period. Reforms led to the New York City Police Riot of June 1857. There was chaos during the American Civil War, with major rioting in the New York Draft ...
Shoppers pass a Macy's department store at the Westfield Garden State Plaza mall on Black Friday in Paramus, New Jersey, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. - Gabby Jones/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Frederick & Nelson. Halle Bros. Marshall Field & Company (commonly known as Marshall Field's) was an upscale department store in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in the 19th century, it grew to become a large chain before Macy's, Inc acquired it in 2005. Its founder, Marshall Field, was a pioneering retail magnate.
Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . The store was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann, patron of the famous Fallingwater house. In the post-war years, the store became a regional chain in the eastern United States, and was last owned by Federated Department Stores.