When was the first department store built in the United States?

In 1848, the Marble Dry Goods Palace opened on Broadway in New York City.

Its proprietor and developer was Alexander Turney Stewart, formerly a schoolmaster in Ireland.

By the time of his death in 1876, the blocklong store yielded annual earnings of $70 million.

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