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Jordan Marsh was the name of a Boston, Massachusetts-based chain of department stores. Formerly part of Allied Stores and then Federated Department Stores, in 1996 the last of the Jordan Marsh stores were renamed Macy's. Allied operated a separate group of stores in Florida called Jordan Marsh Florida. Most Florida stores were consolidated with Burdines in 1991.

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History

In 1841 Eben Jordan and Benjamin L. Marsh open Jordan Marsh in Boston.

In 1935 Boston's Jordan Marsh becomes one of the founders of New York City-based Allied Stores Corporation, a successor to Hahn Department Stores, Inc., a holding company founded in 1928.

In the 1956 the first store in Miami, Florida was opened, later forming a separate division of Allied.

In 1986 The Canadian Campeau Corporation acquires Allied Stores Corporation, which is reorganized under the merger agreement.

In February 1987 Campeau merges D.M. Read Co. of Bridgeport, Connecticut into Jordan Marsh.

In 1988 Campeau Corporation acquires Federated Department Stores. To consolidate with Federated, Allied's New York headquarters move to Cincinnati. Allied Stores: The Bon Marché, Jordan Marsh, Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh Florida and Stern's, operating in tandem with Federated: Bloomingdale's, Abraham & Straus, Lazurus, Rich's, Goldsmith's, and Burdines.

In 1990 saddled by debt resulting from the highly leveraged Campeau takeover of Federated, both Federated and Allied file for bankruptcy reorganization.

In 1991, the operations of Jordan Marsh Florida [and Maas Brothers] is absorbed by Burdines.

In 1992 A new public company - Federated Department Stores, Inc. - emerges in February. The former Allied Stores Corporation is merged into Federated. A consolidation of the A&S and Jordan Marsh divisions results in the A&S/Jordan Marsh division, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1994, the A&S/Jordan Marsh division merges with Macy's and becomes known as Macy's East.

In 1996 Jordan Marsh stores in the Northeast U.S., already part of the Macy's East division, are converted to the Macy's nameplate.

Other Facts

Until 1972 -- and again in the early 1990s -- the Jordan Marsh flagship store in Boston's Downtown Crossing was home to the Enchanted Village, a lavish Christmas display which at its height took over an entire floor of the department store and was also spotlighted in its display windows. The Enchanted Village became a legendary Boston landmark and an annual mainstay of the city's holiday season. More recently it has been housed in the Hynes Convention Center.

Boston's Jordan Hall, at the New England Conservatory of Music, was endowed by Eben D. Jordan II, an heir of the Jordan fortune and a Conservatory trustee.

List of Former Jordan Marsh Stores

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