Shartenberg's Department Store was a six-floor department store

Department store

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 located at 765-777 Chapel Street in Downtown

Downtown New Haven

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 New Haven

New Haven, Connecticut

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, Connecticut

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, designed in the neoclassical

Neoclassical architecture

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 style. In 2007, it was ranked among the "landmark consumer paradises" of New Haven's past, along with The Edw. Malley Co.

The Edw. Malley Co.

The Edw. Malley Co., often abbreviated Malley's, was a prestigious department store in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, from 1852 to 1982. Company produced postcards promoted the establishment as "The Metropolitan Store of Connecticut"...

, Macy's

Macy's

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, and Grant's

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History

The department store began as A. C. Wilcox, (later called A. C. Wilcox & Company) a dry goods

Dry goods

Dry goods are products such as textiles, ready-to-wear clothing, and sundries. In U.S. retailing, a dry goods store carries consumer goods that are distinct from those carried by hardware stores and grocery stores, though "dry goods" as a term for textiles has been dated back to 1742 in England or...

 store, in 1836. After the death of A.C. Wilcox, it became The Howe & Stetson Co., and was greatly enlarged. In 1906, the business was purchased and became the Shartenberg-Robinson Department Store, and finally Shartenberg's Department Store.

The business was sold to Nelson Miller of New York in 1952 and closed its doors April 21, 1962.

The building was razed in either 1962 or 1964. The Shartenberg Site, as it came to be known, was used as a parking lot until 2008, when groundbreaking for the 31-story 360 State Street

360 State Street

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building commenced.