Main Entrance (Day View), Lord & Taylor Chevy Chase Branch Store

ID: 5413 ~ Source: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress ~ Creator: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. ~ Date: October 1959

This file appears in: Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Lord and Taylor, Chevy Chase Branch Store: The New York-based store brought new styles to Washington, DC.

Photograph: The main entrance to the Lord & Taylor Chevy Chase branch store was adorned with two levels of seven rounded arch windows. Flags and landscaping also decorate the main entrance.

This file appears in: Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Lord and Taylor, Chevy Chase Branch Store: The New York-based store brought new styles to Washington, DC.

Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Lord and Taylor, Chevy Chase Branch Store: The New York-based store brought new styles to Washington, DC.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Samuel Lord and George Washington Taylor are credited with establishing one of the first department stores in the nation, opening their first store in 1825 in Manhattan. Their quick success in New…