Dayton's Department Store

The story

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Dayton's Department Store is a department store building at 700 Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, built in stages from 1902 to 1963 in the Commercial Style. It was listed in the National Register in 2019.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criterion A, with state level significance in commerce. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1903 to 1967, spanning George Draper Dayton's 1903 takeover of the Goodfellow's Daylight Store to the company's 1967 initial public offering.

Physical character

The building's foundation is stone, its walls are brick, and terra cotta trim appears under a rubber roof. The main facade carries a projecting cornice with lion heads and terra cotta Corinthian column capitals. Skyway bridges linking it to neighboring buildings were installed in stages from 1969 to 2000. C. F. Raglin and Sons served as both architect and builder; other architects associated with the building include Long, Lamoreaux and Long and Larsen & McLaren.

Historical context

Dayton's company grew into a retail empire, launching Target in 1962, going public in 1967, and merging into the Dayton-Hudson Corporation in 1969, which later acquired Marshall Field's in 1990. The store continued under Macy's ownership until that company closed the downtown Minneapolis location in 2016.