On the southwest corner of Chaparral and Peoples in downtown Corpus Christi sits a structure known since the 1930s as the Montgomery Ward building. On June 23, 1934, thousands of people attended ...

Traveling salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward had founded his mail order firm in 1872 in Chicago. Ward and two partners issued their first catalog that year featuring 163 items. By 1883, the Ward ...

Montgomery Ward Inc., the country’s first catalog retailer, said Thursday it will close up shop after 128 years in business and numerous attempts to reinvent itself. Just 18 months after ...

In 1939, Robert L. May was working as an in-house advertising copywriter at Montgomery Ward, a Chicago-based department store chain and catalog company. May dreamed of writing the great American ...

Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, announced that within a year a chain of 150 retail stores would be in operation under their name. Anticipating anxiety in the minds of small town luncheon club ...

Donation Options Search Search Search 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 ...

Email our journalists at InsideLook@kcstar.com. Reinforced concrete. That’s the key to the Montgomery Ward warehouse that rose eight stories high at St. John and Belmont Avenues on Kansas City ...

The statue has stood on the tower of the Montgomery Ward and Co. administration building since 1929. Constructed in 1927 on the east bank of the Chicago River, the building is now condominiums.