McGinty's Department Store was a general goods 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...

 located in Neosho, Missouri

Neosho, Missouri

Neosho is the most populous city in and the county seat of Newton County, Missouri, United States. Neosho is an integral part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area....

, the county seat

County seat

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 of Newton County, Missouri. McGinty's set on the south side of the Neosho square on the southeast corner of the intersection of Main and Wood streets. The former McGinty's building was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in August 2009.

History

McGinty's Department Store was opened in 1904 by A.C. McGinty. In addition to running his department store, A.C. McGinty also served as the president of Neosho's First National Bank. In 1939, A.C. McGinty's son Hale McGinty began working at the department store and remained in active management until 1991, when his family sold their active share of the business. The McGinty name remained on the business until 2001. The McGinty family had also at one time been part owners of the McGinty-Frohlich Department Store in Monett, Missouri, which is now Brownsberger's Clothing.