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| Industry | Retail |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1906 |
| Defunct | 1962 |
| Headquarters | New Haven, Connecticut |
Shartenberg's Department Store was a six-floor department store located at 765-777 Chapel Street in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, designed in the neoclassical style. In 2007, it was ranked among the "landmark consumer paradises" of New Haven's past, along with The Edw. Malley Co., Macy's, and Grant's.
History
The department store began as A. C. Wilcox, (later called A. C. Wilcox & Company) a dry goods store, in 1836. After the death of A.C. Wilcox, it became The Howe & Stetson Co., and was greatly enlarged. In 1906, the business was purchased and became the Shartenberg-Robinson Department Store, and finally Shartenberg's Department Store.
The business was sold to Nelson Miller of New York in 1952 and closed its doors April 21, 1962.
The building was razed in either 1962 or 1964. The Shartenberg Site, as it came to be known, was used as a parking lot until 2008, when groundbreaking for the 31-story 360 State Street building commenced.
References
- Shartenberg's Department Store at Emporis.com
- "Whose Downtown Is It?" at The New Haven Advocate, December 13, 2007
- Illustrated popular biography of Connecticut at Google Books, 1891
- A Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven County, Volume 1 at Google Books, 1934
- Clustered stores and trolley riders at The New Haven Register, December 16, 2006
- Today in History, Oct. 17 at The New Haven Register, October 17, 2003
- Re-Imagined in New Haven - Developer Using Yesterday to Create Future at New York Construction, March 1, 2010
- Impacts of Proposed Shartenberg Site Development at Knektid.com, February 24, 2008
- Ground broken on State Street project at The New Haven Register, December 2, 2008