The Crescent was a small chain of department stores founded and based in Spokane, Washington. Once a subsidiary of Marshall Field & Company, the chain was sold to BATUS Retail Group in 1982. BATUS ren
The former University City store, still vacant
Downtown Spokane store
Frederick & Nelson
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Frederick & Nelson was a department store chain in the northwestern United States, based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1890 as a furniture store, it later expanded to sell other types of merchand
The Crescent (department store)
…based in Spokane, Washington. Once a subsidiary of Marshall Field & Company, the chain was sold to BATUS Retail Group in 1982. BATUS renamed the stores Frederick & Nelson, the company's Seattle, Washington division, in 1988. Frederick and Nelson eventually filed for bankruptcy and liquidated in 1992. At its peak, The…
Exterior of the flagship store (1982)
Frederick & Nelson, Rialto Building, ca. 1914
Frederick & Nelson: its flagship store, opened in 1918 in Seattle, circa 1922. It was later expanded upward by four more stories, and it remained in use until 1992.
During its final two decades, the Frederick & Nelson chain included several large stores at suburban shopping malls, such as Washington Square, in the west-side suburbs of Portland, Oregon.