The Denver Dry Goods Company

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The Denver Dry Goods Company was established in Denver, Colorado in 1889 as The Colorado Dry Goods Company. Later on it was known as "The Denver". For a while it was claimed to be the largest department store west of Chicago. A description on one postcard from 1916 read: "The Largest Store in the Central West, 400 Feet long-Seven Acres Floor Area, 1,200 Employees, A $1,500,000 Stock, 15th to 16th on California Street Denver Colorado". The store was acquired by May Company as part of Associated Dry Goods Corp. in 1986 (which had acquired it in 1966),9 of the 12 locations were shutdown and sold-off and the remaining 3 units were converted to May-Daniels & Fisher stores in 1987. The original downtown store was built in 1889 and was expanded in 1898 and 1906. It was converted to apartments in 1994.

[edit] Former Locations

Denver: Downtown (opened 1889, closed 1987, converted to apartments)
Boulder: Crossroads Mall (closed 1987)
Colorado Springs: The Citadel (closed 1987, reopened as Mervyn's 1987)
Denver: Aurora Mall (closed 1987, converted to May-Daniels & Fischer, Foley's 1993, Macy's 2006)
Denver: Cherry creek shopping center (opened 1953, converted to May-Daniels & Fisher in 1987, Foley's in 1993, Macy's 2006)
Englewood: Cinderella City Mall (closed 1987, converted to Montgomery Ward)
Denver: Lakeside Mall (closed 1987)
Denver: Northglenn Shopping Center (closed 1987, converted to May-Daniels & Fisher, Foley's in 1993, Macy's 2006)
Centennial: Southglenn Shopping Center (closed 1987, reopened as JC Penney 1987)
Denver: Southwest Plaza (opened 1982, closed 1987, reopened as JC Penney 1987)
Fort Collins: Foothills mall (closed 1987, reopened as Mervyn's 1988)
Pueblo: (closed 1987, reopened as Mervyn's 1988)