Parking Lot and Southern Entrance, Lord & Taylor Chevy Chase Branch Store

ID: 5414 ~ 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 large parking lot located on the southern end of the store accommodated the growing number of suburban residents visiting the store by driving themselves.

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…