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Pike's
legal form	Incorporated
founding	1857
resolution	2006
Reason for dissolution	Takeover by Macy’s
Seat	Arlington , Virginia , USA
Branch	retail trade

Hecht’s (also known as Hecht Brothers , Hecht Bros. and Hecht Company ) was a department store chain in the USA with 81 branches (as of 2005). The company was founded in Baltimore in 1857 . The company was last based in Arlington , Virginia before it was acquired by the Macy’s department store chain in 2006 .

history

Hecht Company Warehouse in Washington, current view (2012)

Former Hecht's department store in Wheaton, Maryland (USA), building demolished in 2011.

The Hecht Company was founded in 1857 by the German immigrant Samuel Hecht (born December 10, 1830 in Langenschwarz , † February 7, 1907 in Baltimore). The Jewish merchant family emigrated from Burghaun in Hesse to America in 1847 .

Also known is the Hecht Company Warehouse in Washington, DC , a building in the style of Streamline Modernism .

Web links

Goethe-Institut : German traces in Washington, Hecht Company

literature

Longstreth, Richard W. The mixed blessings of success: the Hecht Company and department store branch development after World War II, in Hudgins, Carter L. and Cromley, Elizabeth Collins eds., Shaping Communities: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, VI : University of Tennessee Press (Knoxville, Tennessee).

Individual evidence

↑ Kelly, Jacques. Shopping in Fells Point at Hecht's Reliable store, The Baltimore Sun , August 27, 2010 .
^ Hecht Company Warehouse. (PDF; 1.0 MB) In: National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service, December 1, 2008; accessed February 4, 2016 .

[jkellytbs-1] Kelly, Jacques. Shopping in Fells Point at Hecht's Reliable store, The Baltimore Sun , August 27, 2010 .

[2] Hecht Company Warehouse. (PDF; 1.0 MB) In: National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service, December 1, 2008; accessed February 4, 2016 .