The first object you see in “The History of Department Stores” at the City of Architecture and Heritage museum is a larger-than-life plaster caryatid. This draped female figure, familiar from ancient ...

Before online shopping and big-box domination, department stores were the heart of the American retail experience. In the 1970s, these stores offered everything from fashion and furniture to lunch ...

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2017.Herman Wilhelm Bloch left Budapest, Hungary, at the age of 17 and headed to the United States with $1 in his pocket. Bloch sold lace and linens ...

From Sears Roebuck (once the largest retailer in the world) to Marshall Field’s (the ...

Herpolsheimer’s grew from a small dry-goods shop to a Grand Rapids retail icon before closing and becoming city offices.

DALLAS — The Neiman Marcus Company has been a staple in Dallas for over a century. Today, with rival department store Saks Fifth Avenue buying the company for $2.65 billion, the future of the store's ...

The exhibit is the brainchild of Flagler Museum CEO and Director Amanda Skier and Chief Curator Campbell Mobley, with help from Simon Doonan, former creative director of the old Barney's New York.

A split image shows two retail stores: on the left, a beige building with a sign reading “Gordmans”; on the right, a brick and glass storefront with a large sign for “BOB’S STORES” against a blue sky.

Before malls and online shopping, downtown San Diego was the city’s retail heart. Fifth and Broadway teemed with families, teens, and neighbors drawn to polished wood floors, glass display cases, and ...

SHEBOYGAN – In September 1927, the Sheboygan Dry Goods Company was organized when a long-term lease was arranged with J & W Jung Department store for its building at 726 N. Eighth St., which at the ...

The cause of the three-alarm blaze was traced to a worker using an acetylene torch as part of demolition underway on the ...