Castner Knott
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Castner Knott was a Nashville, Tennessee-based regional department store chain with locations in Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee The chain was in business for a century from 1898 to 1998, in its later years as a division of Mercantile Stores Company.
Castner Knott's historic flagship on Nashville's Church Street closed 1996, while the remaining stores were among those sold to Little Rock, Arkansas-based Dillard's when it acquired Mercantile in 1998. The five high volume mall stores in Nashville, where Dillard's already had locations, were sold to Proffitt's, which resold them to Hecht's in 2001. In 2006, the stores were converted to Macy's.
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[edit] Former Locations
[edit] Alabama
- River Oaks Mall (now Colonial Mall) - Decatur (became Dillard's 1998)
- Regency Square Mall - Florence (became Dillard's 1998)
- Madison Square - Huntsville (became Dillard's 1998)
[edit] Kentucky
- Greenwood Mall - Bowling Green (opened 1979, became Dillard's 1998, replacing existing store)
- Greenwood Mall Area Home Store- Bowling Green (closed 1998)
[edit] Tennessee
- Hickory Hollow Mall - Antioch (opened 1978, became Proffitt's 1998, Hecht's 2001, Macy's 2006)
- CoolSprings Galleria - Franklin (opened 1991, became Proffitt's 1998, Hecht's 2001, Macy's 2006)
- CoolSprings Galleria Area Home Store - Franklin (closed 1998)
- RiverGate Mall - Goodlettsville - (opened 1971, became Proffitt's 1998, Hecht's 2001, Macy's 2006)
- Stones River Mall - Murfreesboro (opened 1992, became Dillard's, being replaced 2007)
- 618 Church Street (main store) - Nashville (closed 1998)
- Bellevue Center - Nashville (opened 1990, became Proffitt's 1998, Hecht's 2001, Macy's 2006)
- Donelson Plaza - Nashville (became Dillard's 1998, closed 2002)
- Harding Mall - Nashville (became Dillard's 1998, closed 2005)
- The Mall at Green Hills - Nashville (became Proffitt's 1998, Hecht's 2001, demolished and replaced 2004)
- Northgate Mall - Tullahoma (became Dillard's 1998)
[edit] External link
- Castner Knott reunion website, with details on history from former employees and vendors
Store Conversions to Dillard's
1998: Castner Knott | Hennessy's | J.B. White | Gayfers | The Lion | Joslins | Maison Blanche | McAlpin's | Bacon's
1992: Higbee's | Joseph Horne 1990: Ivey's 1989: D.H. Holmes 1988: Miller & Paine
1987: Joske's | Cain Sloan 1986: Hemphill-Wells 1984: Stix, Baer & Fuller | John A. Brown | Diamond's
1974: Leonard's | Gus Blass | Mayer & Schmidt | Pfeifer's | Wooten's 1972: Fedway 1960: Brown Dunkin
Mercantile Stores Company Inc.
Retailers: Castner Knott | Root's | McAlpin's | Lion | Bacon's | J. B. White | Maison Blanche | Gayfers | The Jones Store | Joslins | de Lendrecies | Glass Block | Hennessy's