Strawbridge and Clothier Store, Jenkintown | |
Location | 680 Old York Rd. N of Rydal Rd. Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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Coordinates | 40°6′6″N75°7′32″W / 40.10167°N 75.12556°W |
Area | 7.9 acres (3.2 ha) |
Built | 1930-1931, 1954 |
Architect | Dreher & Churchman; Herbert B. Beidler |
Architectural style | Art Deco |
NRHP reference No. | 88003047 [1] |
Added to NRHP | December 22, 1988 |
The Strawbridge and Clothier Store is a historic department store building located at Jenkintown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was built by Strawbridge & Clothier in 1930-1931 and renovated and expanded in 1954. It closed in 1988 when it relocated to the Willow Grove Park Mall. It is now an office building, multi-tenant.
The original section is a four-story, steel frame structure faced in limestone and on a granite base in the Art Deco style. It has a flat slag roof with parapet. 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. [2] This Strawbridge & Clothier store closed in 1988 when it relocated to the Willow Grove Park Mall. [3] In the late 1990s, the building served as the headquarters of fast-growing online music retailer CDNow. It currently houses an Outback Steakhouse.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]
The building was built on the site of Wyndhurst, banker John Milton Colton's estate containing a Horace Trumbauer-designed Tudor-style residence built 1899-1900. [4] 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. [5]
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