Siegel-Cooper Building
620 Avenue of the Americas | also 45 West 18th Street | Flatiron | built 1900
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- 1896
Siegel-Cooper opens the largest store in the world on Ladies' Mile
Chicago merchants Henry Siegel and Frank H. Cooper opened their New York emporium on Sixth Avenue in September 1896, in a steel-framed Beaux-Arts building by DeLemos & Cordes. It was billed as the largest store in the world. On the main floor stood a marble fountain with a copy of Daniel Chester French's statue The Republic, and "Meet me at the fountain" became the store's slogan.
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- 1897
DeLemos and Cordes build Siegel-Cooper in full steel-frame construction
Architects DeLemos & Cordes designed the Beaux-Arts Siegel-Cooper store, built in 1895-97 and expanded in 1899, as the first New York department store built entirely on a steel frame. The eighteen-acre interior held a bank, a dental office, and a barber shop, and shoppers met beneath a marble fountain topped with a copy of Daniel Chester French's Republic statue.
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- 1917
The bankrupt store closes and the building becomes a World War I military hospital
Siegel-Cooper declared bankruptcy in 1915, and the New York store closed in 1917. During World War I the huge building served as a military hospital, and afterward it was used as a warehouse. It was eventually renovated for shopping again, with tenants such as Bed, Bath & Beyond, T.J. Maxx and Marshalls.
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- Siegel-Cooper CompanyWikipedia
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