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Jordan Marsh
Image:Jordan33.jpg
Type Department store
Founded 1841 Boston, Massachusetts
Headquarters Boston, Massachusetts
Industry Retail
Products Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares.
Website None

Jordan Marsh was the name of a Boston, Massachusetts-based department store. Founded in 1841 and eventually part of Allied Stores and then Federated Department Stores, in 1996 the last of the Jordan Marsh stores were renamed Macy's. Allied operated a separate group of stores in Florida called Jordan Marsh Florida. The Florida stores were disbanded in 1991, with several being merged with Maas Brothers, which later became Burdines.

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[edit] History

In 1841 Eben Jordan and Benjamin L. Marsh opened Jordan Marsh in Boston. In 1935 Boston's Jordan Marsh became one of the founders of New York City-based Allied Stores Corporation, a successor to Hahn Department Stores, Inc., a holding company founded in 1928. In 1951 the landmark branch store at Shopper's World was opened. In 1956 the first store in Miami, Florida was opened, later forming a separate division of Allied.

In 1986 The Canadian Campeau Corporation acquired Allied Stores Corporation, which is reorganized under the merger agreement. In February 1987 Campeau merged D.M. Read Co. of Bridgeport, Connecticut into Jordan Marsh, and merged Jordan Marsh Florida with Maas Brothers of Tampa, Florida as the new Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh Florida division.

In 1988 Campeau Corporation acquired Federated Department Stores. To consolidate with Federated, Allied's New York headquarters moved to Cincinnati. Allied Stores: The Bon Marché, Jordan Marsh, Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh Florida and Stern's, operating in tandem with Federated: Bloomingdale's, Abraham & Straus, Lazurus, Rich's, Goldsmith's, and Burdines.

In 1990 saddled by debt resulting from the highly leveraged Campeau takeover of Federated, both Federated and Allied filed for bankruptcy reorganization. Campeau Corp. U.S., Inc. is renamed Federated Stores, Inc. The operations of Jordan Marsh Florida and Maas Brothers] were absorbed by Burdines in 1991.

In 1992 a new public company, Federated Department Stores, Inc., emerged in February. The former Allied Stores Corporation was merged into Federated. A consolidation of the A&S and Jordan Marsh divisions resulted in the A&S/Jordan Marsh division, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. In 1994, the A&S/Jordan Marsh division merged with Macy's East and the A&S stores are renamed Macy's in 1995. In 1996 Jordan Marsh stores in the Northeast U.S., already part of the Macy's East division, were converted to the Macy's nameplate.

[edit] Other Facts

Until 1972 -- and again in the early 1990s -- the Jordan Marsh flagship store in Boston's Downtown Crossing was home to the Enchanted Village, a lavish Christmas display which at its height took over an entire floor of the department store and was also spotlighted in its display windows. The Enchanted Village became a legendary Boston landmark and an annual mainstay of the city's holiday season. More recently it has been housed in the Hynes Convention Center.

Boston's Jordan Hall, at the New England Conservatory of Music, was endowed by Eben D. Jordan II, an heir of the Jordan fortune and a Conservatory trustee.

Jordan Marsh is also mention in the book "Carrie" by Stephen King, in the story, character Estelle Horan mother goes to Jordan Marsh and buys her a white bathing suit, also Chris Hargensen's character has a brand new white Jordan Marsh $27.50 sweater which Billy Nolan covers in grease during a make out scene, thus in the story the sweater is "beyond anything but the garbage can"

[edit] List of former Jordan Marsh Stores

[edit] Connecticut

  • Bridgeport, Downtown (original D.M. Read), Bridgeport (originally Read's, renamed Jordan Marsh 1987, closed 1987)
  • Lafayette Plaza, Bridgeport (opened 1987 in former Gimbels location, closed 1991)
  • Danbury, Federal Street (freestanding), Danbury (originally Read's, renamed Jordan Marsh 1987, closed July 1990 as part of bankruptcy) 170,000 square feet
  • Derby (freestanding), Derby (originally Read's, closed in 1991 as part of bankruptcy, later Kmart, currently vacant, to be torn down for Lowe's)
  • Orange (freestanding), Orange (originally Read's, renamed Jordan Marsh 1987, closed 1991 as part of bankruptcy)82,000 square feet
  • Southbury, Main Street (freestanding), Southbury (originally Read's, renamed Jordan Marsh 1987, closed 1991 as part of bankruptcy) 121,000 square feet
  • Trumbull Shopping Center (now Westfield Trumbull) Trumbull (originally Read's, renamed Jordan Marsh 1987, renamed Abraham & Straus 1992, renamed Macy's 1995, closed 2006 in favor of the Filene's location)
  • Crystal Mall, Waterford (opened 1984, renamed Macy's 1996) 120,000 square feet

[edit] Florida

[edit] Georgia

[edit] Maine

[edit] Massachusetts

  • Downtown Crossing/Lafayette Place Mall (flagship), Boston (current location built 1950, renamed Macy's 1996) 800,000 square feet
  • South Shore Plaza, Braintree (opened 1969, renamed Macy's 1996, closed 2006 in favor of the Filene's location, site to be occupied by Nordstrom in 2010) 303,000 square feet
  • Westgate Mall, Brockton (opened 1977, renamed Macy's 1996, closed 2006 in favor of the Filene's location) 73,000 square feet
  • Burlington Mall (with Car Care), Burlington (opened 1968, renamed Macy's 1996) 267,000 sq.ft.
  • Shoppers World, Framingham (opened 1951, shaped like a dome, closed 1994 with opening of Natick Mall store)
  • Hanover Mall, Hanover (opened 1987, renamed Macy's 1996, closed in 1996 and demolished for new JCPenney) 62,000 square feet
  • Cape Cod Mall, Hyannis (opened 1978, renamed Macy's 1996) 130,000 square feet
  • Merrimack Street (freestanding), Lowell (Opened as The Bon Marche in 1874, renamed Jordan Marsh in 1975, closed 1990)
  • Methuen Mall, Methuen (opened 1974, closed 1994 with opening of The Mall at Rockingham Park store)
  • Natick Mall, Natick (opened 1994, renamed Macy's 1996, closed 2006 in favor of the Filene's location, reopened as JCPenney 2007) 211,000 square feet
  • Northshore Mall, Peabody (opened 1958, renamed Macy's 1996, closed 2006 in favor of the Filene's location, site to be occupied by Nordstrom in 2010) 301,000 square feet
  • Assembly Square Mall, Somerville, (opened 1980, renamed Macy's 1996, closed 1997, now Christmas Tree Shops/Staples) 79,000 square feet
  • Swansea Mall, Swansea (opened spring 1988, renamed Macy's 1996) 99,814 square feet
  • Worcester Center Galleria (later Worcester Common Fashion Outlets), Worcester (opened 1972, closed 1991 as part of bankruptcy) 309,000 square feet

[edit] New Hampshire

[edit] New York

[edit] Rhode Island

  • Warwick Mall, Warwick (opened 1970, renamed Macy's 1996, closed 2006 in favor of the Filene's location) 309,000 square feet

[edit] South Carolina

  • The Mall at Shelter Cove, Hilton Head Island (opened 1988 as Jordan Marsh, sold to JCPenney 1991 which operated until 1996, then Saks Fifth Avenue from 1997, closed 01/2005 now Off Fifth, Saks Fifth Avenue Outlet)

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Store conversions to Macy's

2006: Famous-Barr | Filene's | Foley's | Hecht's | The Jones Store
Kaufmann's | L.S. Ayres | Marshall Field's | Meier & Frank | Robinsons-May | Strawbridge's
2005: The Bon Marché | Burdines | Goldsmith's | Lazarus | Rich's    2001: Liberty House | Stern's
1996: The Broadway | Bullock's | Emporium-Capwell | The Emporium | Jordan Marsh | Weinstock's
1995: Abraham & Straus    1986: Bamberger's | Davison's
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