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Montgomery Ward. Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a mail-order business and later a department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The current Montgomery Ward Inc. is an online shopping and mail-order catalog retailer that started several years after the ...
The Montgomery Ward (165,000 sq ft.) store opened on April 20, 1967, when former Maryland Gov. J. Millard Tawes cut the ceremonial ribbon. [1] [2] The second anchor of the two anchor mall, Woodward & Lothrop, opened its store in the Spring of 1967. [3]
September 14, 2000. Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store is a historic warehouse and retail building in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is an eight-story (plus penthouse) concrete structure and is roughly shaped like a squared-off number "4". The front features a penthouse tower at the main entrance bay with a balcony and capped by ...
Though it boomed through the first four decades of the 20th Century, the tide eventually turned against pioneering stores like Wards and Sears. Since the early 1990s, the once thriving mega-space ...
This view shows both the Montgomery Ward store on the left of the corridor, and the U-shaped former Chevrolet assembly plant to the right across West Seventh. The plant in 1949 was being used as a ...
Signature. Aaron Montgomery Ward (February 17, 1843 – December 7, 1913) was an American entrepreneur based in Chicago who made his fortune through the use of mail order for retail sales of general merchandise to rural customers. In 1872 he founded Montgomery Ward & Company, which became nationally known. Ward, a young traveling salesman of ...
Montgomery Ward, mail order store. Founded in 1872, Montgomery Ward pioneered mail-order catalog retailing and opened its first retail store in 1926. A bankruptcy reorganization in 1999 failed to turn the chain around. Closed 2001. Still exists as a catalog/internet/mail order retailer. Siegel-Cooper Company
This view shows both the Montgomery Ward store on the left of the corridor, and the U-shaped former Chevrolet assembly plant to the right across West Seventh. The plant in 1949 was being used as a ...