department store

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His father was an explosives engineer for a mining company in a little-known part of northern Spain, his mother worked in a department store.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Established in 2005, it owns the Empire State Building and London's Shard, the Canary Wharf district and high-end department store Harrods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Get thee to a department store for some soft furnishings.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Left to talk, Jacobs whirls through stories of past, present and future: anecdotes about his grandmother planning her lunch spot around which department store she’d spend the day at, and memories of Bob Fosse films.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

Burnham and his firm went on to build scores of other structures, among them the Gimbel’s department store in New York, Filene’s in Boston, and the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson