Sears, Roebuck & Company Department Store, Exterior

ID: 773 ~ Source: DC Preservation League Photo Repository

This file appears in: Sears, Roebuck & Company Department Store: This former department store building exemplifies shifting retail needs in suburban DC.

This file appears in: Sears, Roebuck & Company Department Store: This former department store building exemplifies shifting retail needs in suburban DC.

Sears, Roebuck & Company Department Store: This former department store building exemplifies shifting retail needs in suburban DC.

By The DC Historic Sites team

In the 1880s, Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck began a mail-order business for watches. The mail-order business brought products to people that did not have the financial means or time to travel to…