Montgomery Ward Building (Burlington, Vermont)

Burlington Montgomery Ward Building

(2008)
Location 52-54 Church St.
Burlington, Vermont
Coordinates 44°28′44″N 73°12′46″W / 44.47889°N 73.21278°W / 44.47889; -73.21278
Built 1929
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NRHP Reference #

91000673

[1]
Added to NRHP May 30, 1991

The Burlington Montgomery Ward Building is a historic former department store building located at 52-54 Church Street, between Cherry and Bank Streets, in the Church Street Marketplace of downtown Burlington, Vermont. The building was opened on December 28, 1929, and was the 515th Montgomery Ward store in the United States, part of the company's strategy to open many small stores to compete with the smaller number of large stores that were being opened by its competitor, Sears, Roebuck & Company.[2] The company continued to operate the store in Burlington until December 1961, when it was closed. Since then, a number of retailers have utilized the building, part of which has been partitioned off to become a bank branch.[2]

The top of the building displays Montgomery Ward's "Spirit of Progress" emblem in terra-cotta, designed for the company by J. Massey Rhind, and which adorns many of the company's stores built at the time.[2]

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  1. ↑ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 "Montgomery Ward Building Designation Report"

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