page_title: B. Altman and Company
hierarchical_section_title: B. Altman and Company
caption_attribution_description: 615-629 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) between West 18th and 19th Streets in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City. Originally the B. Altman Dry Goods Store, built 1876-77 (David &amp; John Jardine), with addition on the south in 1887 by William H. Hume, and on West 18th Street by Buchman &amp; Fox, 1909. B. Altman moved to Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in 1906. The current street retail occupant is The Container Store.
context_page_description: B. Altman and Company was a luxury department store and chain, founded in 1865 in New York City, New York, by Benjamin Altman. It had its flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan from 1906 until the company closed the store at the end of 1989. Branch stores were all shuttered by the end of January 1990.
  One of the first American department stores to open out-of-town branches, Altman's eventually opened locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey; and New York state. A short-lived location in Cincinnati, Ohio, opened during the L.J. Hooker ownership period, and two mall locations in Buffalo and Syracuse, New York, were physically completed but never occupied by Altman's during that same time.
context_section_description: B. Altman and Company was a luxury department store and chain, founded in 1865 in New York City, New York, by Benjamin Altman.  It  had its flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan from 1906 until the company closed the store at the end of 1989. Branch stores were all shuttered by the end of January 1990.
  One of the first American department stores to open out-of-town branches, Altman's eventually opened locations in Pennsylvania (St. Davids in 1965 and Willow Grove in 1983), New Jersey (Short Hills in 1958—replacing an earlier nearby East Orange store—and Ridgewood/Paramus in 1967); and New York state (Manhasset in 1947 and White Plains in 1930). A short-lived location in Cincinnati, Ohio,  opened during the L.J. Hooker ownership period (1987–1989), and two mall locations in Buffalo and Syracuse, New York, were physically completed but never occupied by Altman's during that same time.
caption: Altman's store on Sixth Avenue in the Ladies' Mile shopping district
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