Saks Fifth Avenue is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in New York City and founded by Andrew Saks. The original store opened in the F Street shopping district of Washington, D.C. in 1867. Saks expanded into Manhattan with its Herald Square store in 1902 and flagship store on Fifth Avenue in 1924. The chain was acquired by Tennessee-based Proffitt's, Inc. in 1998, and Saks, Inc. was acquired by the Canadian-based Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 2013.
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Saks and Co. and Kann's, NW corner of 7th St. and Pennsylvania Av., Washington, D.C., 1920.
SFA Miami Beach on Lincoln Road, 1940
Lincoln Road Mall is a pedestrian road running east–west parallel between 16th Street and 17th Street in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Once completely open to vehicular traffic, it now hosts a pedestrian mall replete with shops, restaurants, galleries, and other businesses between Washington Avenue with a traffic accessible street extending east to the Atlantic Ocean and west to Alton Road with a traffic accessible street extending to Biscayne Bay.
Lincoln Road as it looked in 2008 facing east at the intersection of Alton Road. The Regal Cinema is on the right.
Miami Modern architecture follies line Lincoln Road
Miami Beach Community Church, designed by Walter De Garmo