D. H. Holmes was a New Orleans department store and later a New Orleans based chain of department stores. The company was founded in 1842 by Daniel Henry Holmes, after whom it is named.[1] In 1849 he moved his headquarters to Canal Street.[1][2]
D.H. Holmes's main building on Canal Street was long considered a landmark, partly because of a clock on the front of the building.[2] When Canal Street was a major shopping area, "under the clock at D.H. Holmes" was a proverbial place to meet someone. At the beginning of the novel A Confederacy of Dunces,[3] Ignatius Reilly agrees to meet his mother there.
In 1989 D.H. Holmes was purchased by Dillard's.[2][4] The former main store of D.H. Holmes is now a hotel. It was formerly the Chateau Sonesta hotel, which was renamed in 2008 the Chateau Bourbon, a Wyndham Historic Hotel.
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