The first Montgomery Ward location in Spokane opened in 1927 in the Reliance Building at Second Avenue and Lincoln Street. The expansion of the longtime mail order retailer into physical stores in ...

The Spirit of Progress, a statue installed on top of the Montgomery Ward administration building in 1929, was taken down Saturday for repairs. It will be reinstalled in the spring.

He stayed on at Montgomery Ward and, in 1946, received an offer from RCA Victor to do a spoken-word record of the story. But because Montgomery Ward owned the rights to the book, May couldn’t ...

The Spirit of Progress is a replica of a gilded weather vane, called Progress Lighting the Way for Commerce, on the former Montgomery Ward offices at 2 N. Michigan Ave, according to the history ...