100 Years Ago: Harklin Co. to make store improvements costing more than $20,000

100 Years Ago

July 26, 1924 (The Adrian Daily Telegram did not publish a July 27 edition of the newspaper in 1924): An extensive store improvement which will add materiality to the general attractiveness of the downtown business district was announced today by the Harklin Company which was contracted for the remodeling and enlargement of its headquarters at 138-140 North Main street at a cost of over $20,000. The announcement of the plans was made by S. H. Shalen, of New York, general manager of the Harklin chain of stores, who came here a few days ago to supervise the work. The company has taken a 20-year lease on the store from Mrs. Florence Reynolds, owner of the building. Two improvements of especial importance are included in the plans. One will be the building of an entire new front. The stairway leading to the second story from the streets on the south end of the building is to be removed and six feet thereby added to the store frontage, making a total of 40 feet across. The store level is to be dropped a foot to that of the street. More than 1,200 square feet of glass, 132 linear feet from one end of the store front to the other, will enclose the deep windows and show cases which will border the double entrance way. The “island” plan of entrance way, adopted of late by many of the larger stores of the country as the most effective display, will be used. Large cases will be constructed in the center, around which will extend a tile promenade. Along the sides from the front walk to the two wide doors into the store and extending between the doors at the rear large windows will offer further means for the attractive display of goods.

This article originally appeared on The Daily Telegram: Daily Telegram 100 Years Ago for July 27, 2024