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620 Six Ave - Siegel-Cooper Building - GOR-1206838-cE21

Siegel-Cooper In September 1896 the company opened a store in New York City, a huge emporium in the Ladies' Mile Shopping District, joining the other major department stores in the neighborhood. Their steel-framed building, the first department store in New York to be so constructed, was the largest store in the world at the time, and was designed in Beaux-Arts style by DeLemos & Cordes,

The six-story Siegel-Cooper store was located at 616-632 Sixth Avenue between West 18th and 19th Streets, and was built between 1895 and 1897, then expanded in 1899.
bankruptcy in 1915, and the New York store closed in 1917, becoming a military hospital during World War and then a warehouse.

After decades of miscellaneous use as a warehouse, the NBC Television scene shop and the location "The Door", a social services center, the New York building become one of the first of the great dry-goods emporia in the Ladies' Mile to be renovated and re-opened for retail use. Calling itself "The Anchor of the Avenue", the building's retail tenants currentlyare Bed, Bath & Beyond, T.J. Maxx and Marshall's.
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Siegel-Cooper In September 1896 the company opened a store in New York City, a huge emporium in the Ladies' Mile Shopping District, joining the other major department stores in the neighborhood. Their steel-framed building, the first department store in New York to be so constructed, was the largest store in the world at the time, and was designed in Beaux-Arts style by DeLemos & Cordes, <br /> <br /> The six-story Siegel-Cooper store was located at 616-632 Sixth Avenue between West 18th and 19th Streets, and was built between 1895 and 1897, then expanded in 1899.<br /> bankruptcy in 1915, and the New York store closed in 1917, becoming a military hospital during World War and then a warehouse.<br /> <br /> After decades of miscellaneous use as a warehouse, the NBC Television scene shop and the location "The Door", a social services center, the New York building become one of the first of the great dry-goods emporia in the Ladies' Mile to be renovated and re-opened for retail use. Calling itself "The Anchor of the Avenue", the building's retail tenants currentlyare Bed, Bath & Beyond, T.J. Maxx and Marshall's.<br /> ____________________________________________
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