Jordan Marsh & Company was a department store

Department store

A department store is a retail establishment which satisfies a wide range of the consumer's personal and residential durable goods product needs; and at the same time offering the consumer a choice of multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in all product categories...

 in Boston, Massachusetts, which grew to be a major regional chain in the New England

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 area of the United States

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. In 1996, the last of the Jordan Marsh stores were converted to Macy's

Macy's

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. The store was formerly part of Allied Stores

Allied Stores

Allied Stores was a department store chain in the United States. It was founded in the 1930s as part of a general consolidation in the retail sector by B. E. Puckett. See also Associated Dry Goods. It was the successor to Hahn's Department Stores, a holding company founded in 1928...

 and then Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.). Allied also operated a separate group of stores in Florida

Florida

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 called Jordan Marsh Florida, which were disbanded in 1991.
In 1841, Eben Dyer Jordan

Eben Dyer Jordan

Eben Dyer Jordan, Sr. was the co-founder of the department store chain Jordan Marsh with Benjamin L. Marsh in 1841.-Early life:...

 left his job at a Boston

Boston

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 dry goods store and went into business for himself laying the foundation for the first Jordan Marsh.