The Edw. Malley Co.

The story

Connecticut's 'Metropolitan Store' rose from a 15x20-foot room where goods hung from wires and barrels served as counters.

Everything that was here

• 1852–1982

  The Edw. Malley Co.Department Store

  Connecticut's 'Metropolitan Store' rose from a 15x20-foot room where goods hung from wires and barrels served as counters.

  See the map in 1853 →
• 1880–1978

  Hyperion TheaterTheater

  The largest theater in New England outside Boston, where Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, and Mae West all performed.

  See the map in 1881 →
• 1836–1962

  Shartenberg's Department StoreDepartment Store

  The six-story neoclassical palace that began as A.C. Wilcox's dry goods store in 1836, becoming downtown's largest store before urban renewal erased it.

  See the map in 1837 →

Nearby history