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Strawbridge and Clothier Store, Jenkintown

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48: 665: 65: 90: 1152: 1162: 672: 97: 72: 280:. The building features piers that extend above the roof parapet, two-story projecting entrance pavilions, a one-story flat roofed extension with elegant display windows, and two five-story towers. The addition is a three-story structure with a parking garage. It was built as the second suburban branch of Strawbridge and Clothier. This Strawbridge & Clothier store closed in 1988 when it relocated to the 459: 1117: 1112: 1186: 771: 766: 761: 943: 1126: 1023: 988: 938: 1216: 1013: 968: 928: 873: 853: 803: 783: 878: 863: 696: 691: 983: 978: 903: 883: 838: 813: 798: 793: 721: 606: 1028: 1003: 933: 918: 898: 888: 868: 858: 828: 808: 788: 778: 756: 741: 736: 706: 1008: 973: 963: 923: 913: 908: 893: 848: 843: 833: 751: 746: 731: 701: 1122: 1018: 998: 993: 948: 726: 716: 711: 686: 1064: 1033: 958: 823: 1049: 818: 1054: 1089: 1079: 1074: 1211: 1206: 1084: 1069: 1094: 599: 310:-style residence built 1899-1900. The main residence was razed in 1930 to build the Jenkintown store, but one of the outbuildings in similar Tudor style remains at 2 Rydal Rd. 1155: 1059: 953: 615: 592: 463: 132: 64: 89: 1136: 1132: 654: 644: 500: 1196: 1191: 1165: 397: 639: 493: 340: 296: 34: 1201: 486: 545: 233: 566: 584: 373: 523: 473: 402: 509: 284:. In the late 1990s, the building served as the headquarters of fast-growing online music retailer 229: 119: 47: 302:
The building was built on the site of Wyndhurst, banker John Milton Colton's estate containing a
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in 1930-1931 and renovated and expanded in 1954. It closed in 1988 when it relocated to the
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The original section is a four-story, steel frame structure faced in
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Patrick W. O'Bannon and Diane E. Newbury (October 1988).
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It currently houses an 210: 198:NRHP reference  197: 187: 179: 171: 163: 126: 113: 57: 45: 41: 32: 25: 21: 1202:Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 577:This list is incomplete. 510:Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 188:Architectural style 120:Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 79:Show map of Pennsylvania 167:7.9 acres (3.2 ha) 635:Keeper of the Register 282:Willow Grove Park Mall 242:Willow Grove Park Mall 650:National Park Service 630:Contributing property 363:(Searchable database) 346:National Park Service 272:style. It has a flat 148:40.10167°N 75.12556°W 466:at Wikimedia Commons 228:building located at 153:40.10167; -75.12556 144: /  290:Outback Steakhouse 236:. 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Strawbridge and Clothier Store, Jenkintown is located in Pennsylvania
Strawbridge and Clothier Store, Jenkintown is located in the United States
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
40°6′6″N 75°7′32″W / 40.10167°N 75.12556°W / 40.10167; -75.12556
Art Deco
88003047
department store
Jenkintown
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Strawbridge & Clothier
Willow Grove Park Mall
office building
multi-tenant
limestone
granite
Art Deco
slag
parapet
Willow Grove Park Mall
CDNow
Outback Steakhouse
National Register of Historic Places
Horace Trumbauer
Tudor


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places

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