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This is a list of defunct department stores of the United States, from small-town one-unit stores to mega-chains, which have disappeared over the past 100 years. Many closed, while others were sold or merged with other department stores. Department stores merged with Federated and May 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 becoming units of Macy's, Inc. The following is a list of the affected stores, including some local and regional stores that earlier had been absorbed into chains that became part of Federated, May, or Macy's. Abraham & Straus (Macy's in 1995) D. M. Read (Macy's in 1990) Bamberger's (Macy's in 1986) The Bon Marché (Macy's in 2005) C.C. Anderson's Golden Rule (The Bon Marché in 1923) Bullock's (Macy's in 1996) Bullocks Wilshire Burdines (Macy's in 2005) Maas Brothers Carter Hawley Hale Stores (merged into Macy's West 1996) The Broadway (Southern California). Headquartered in Los Angeles. Emporium-Capwell (Northern California) Capwell's (East Bay) The Emporium (San Francisco and South Bay, North Bay) Hale Bros. (San Francisco and Sacramento) Weinstock's (Sacramento and Reno) Davison's (Macy's in 1986) The F & R Lazarus and Co. (Macy's in 2005) Shillito's Rike Kumler Co. (Rike's) William H. Block Co. (Blocks) Joseph Horne Co. (Horne's) Herpolsheimer's Famous-Barr (Macy's in 2006) The Famous Clothing Store Filene's (Macy's in 2006) Filene's Basement (separated from Filene's in 1988, closed in 2011) G. Fox & Co. B. Peck & Co. (sold to Gamble-Skogmo, Inc.) Steiger's Foley's (Macy's in 2006) May-Daniels & Fisher The Denver Dry Goods Company Sanger-Harris Sanger Brothers Gold Circle (discount store chain) Founded in 1967 by Federated; merged into Richway in 1988 and later dismantled during 1990 bankruptcy Gold Triangle (discount store chain for electronics, appliances, home building supply, sporting goods, photography, housewares) Founded in 1970 - closed in 1981, 6 Florida locations - 3 Miami, Plantation, Tampa and Orlando. Goldwater's Goldsmith's Merged into Rich's in mid-1980s. (Macy's in 2005) Hecht's (Macy's in 2006) Castner Knott (Hecht's in 1998) Miller & Rhoads (Hecht's in 1990) Strawbridge's (Macy's in 2006) Thalhimers (Hecht's in 1990) Woodward & Lothrop I. Magnin, owned by Federated 1965-1988 and R.H. Macy Co. 1988–1994; most stores closed 1988–1993, remainder of stores converted to Macy's West and Bullock's or sold to Saks Fifth Avenue. Union Square, San Francisco location eventually incorporated into adjacent Macy's. John Wanamaker or Wanamaker's (Philadelphia and New York City flagship stores), sold to Carter Hawley Hale in 1979, then Washington, DC-based Woodward & Lothrop owned by Alfred Taubman; sold to May Company in 1995; merged with Federated Department Stores in 2005 (now known as Macy's, Inc.) The Jones Store (Macy's in 2006) Jordan Marsh (Macy's in 1996) Kaufmann's (Offices merged with Filene's in 2002, Macy's in 2006) May Company Ohio O'Neil's (department store) Sibley's Strouss-Hirshberg L.S. Ayres (Macy's in 2006) Stewart's H. & S. Pogue Company Liberty House (Macy's in 2001) Marshall Field's (Macy's in 2006) Dayton's (Marshall Field's in 2001) Frederick & Nelson (defunct in 1992) The Crescent (department store) (defunct in 1992) Lipman's Halle Brothers Co. Hudson's (Marshall Field's in 2001) J.B. Ivey & Co. Meier & Frank (Macy's in 2006) Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution (Meier & Frank in 2001) Rich's (Macy's in 2005) Robinsons-May (Macy's in 2006) May Company California (Robinsons-May in 1993) Hamburger's J. W. Robinson's (Robinsons-May in 1993) Steiger's (May in 1994) Stern's (Macy's in 2001) Gertz Quackenbush Other department stores Discount Stores Ames. Bradlees was part of the Stop 'n Shop Companies which was a grocery chain also based in Mass. While there were Bradlees discount stores in the mid Atlantic region, with a buying office on Broadway in the garment center district in NYC; the grocery stores were only in the New England area. Caldor, Service Merchandise, Venture, Woolco, and Zayre were national discount stores that closed due to changes in shopping places and patterns, and/or large debt from mergers and acquisitions. National and regional Acorn Stores (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Ames Department Stores Inc. (based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut) Arlan's Department Store (Mid-Atlantic and Midwest) Ayr-Way (Midwest/Great Lakes States-Based out of Indianapolis) Was discount chain of L.S. Ayres & Co. that eventually became Target Stores. L.S. Ayres (Indianapolis-Midwest/ Great Lakes states) Was eventually sold to May Department Stores and finally became Macy's. The Bon-Ton and its subsidiaries: Bergner's, Boston Store (Wisconsin), Carson's, Elder-Beerman, Herberger's and Younkers. Bradlees (based in Boston, Massachusetts) (New England, Mid-Atlantic) Britt's Department Store (national) E. J. Korvette (East Coast and Midwest) last stores were closed in 1980 after filing for bankruptcy Fisher's Big Wheel (Northeast & Midwest) Discount Department Stores based out of metro Pittsburgh, PA. Fred's (Southeast) F.W. Woolworth Company Gamble-Skogmo G. E. M. Membership Department Stores (national/Ontario, Canada; also known as G.E.X. and G.E.S.) Gibson's Discount Center, based in Texas but had spread to many other states at its peak W. T. Grant Hills Department Stores (National) Was bought out by Ames Department Stores. Howard Brothers Discount Stores Jack's (operated by Penn-Daniels and based in Quincy, Illinois with locations in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri) Jamesway (Mid-Atlantic) S.H. Kress & Co., Puerto Rico subsidiary Tiendas Kress lives on, having survived parent company Leggett (Mid-Atlantic), acquired by Belk in 1997 Lord & Taylor, the oldest department store chain in the United States, founded in 1826 in New York City, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 2, 2020. On August 27, 2020, the company stated it would be liquidating all 38 locations by December 1, 2020. McCrory Stores (national) Mervyn's (primarily western U.S. but also in a few midwestern and southern U.S. states) Montgomery Ward (national - Chicago) Neisner's Odd Job Stores, Inc. (located in the northeast and midwestern U.S.), acquired by Amazing Savings in 2003 and went bankrupt in 2005 P.N. Hirsch, acquired by International Shoe Company (later renamed Interco) in 1964; later sold to Dollar General in 1983 and rebranded Schultz's Family Stores, began as Schultz Bros. Co., headquartered in Lake Zurich, Illinois, 77 total stores in 1974 in the Upper Midwest, bankrupt and bought by Prange Way in 1989 Shoppers Fair Steve & Barry's Syms Topps stores were closed when parent co.... Discover the Lynn Grabhorn popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Lynn Grabhorn books.