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Home Company Department Store/Essex House Apartment Complex
1915 Ashland centennial by William A. Duff - The Home Company, Ashland’s great department store is a consolidation of two old time dry goods establishments, namely, Shinn, Stockwell & Co., and Beach & Brown. In the year 1910 a beautiful four story and basement business block was completed at the corner of Main and Center streets and leased by two of Ashland’s oldest and most reliable business houses, who conceived the idea of joining hands and establishing one great department store, and it is doubtful if there is another city in the country the size of Ashland that can boast of a retail establishment equal to The Home Company.
This store occupies three great floors utilizing over 30,000 square feet of floor space and is equipped with every modern improvement for the convenience of its patrons including electric passenger and freight elevators, private branch inter-communicating telephone system connecting with all departments, saving time, annoyance and mistakes; women’s rest and writing room and free city delivery service.
Forty-two people are connected with this fast growing institution including those employed in the completely equipped dressmaking department, which is located on the fourth floor, under the direction of a competent modiste.
One hundred and twenty-one feet of window space on Main and Center streets enables this store to attractively display fashionable and seasonable merchandise as well as special sale features.
The singel success of this great store rest upon reliable merchandise at right prices and fair treatment to all patrons. This spirit is manifest throughout the store. Ashland people have no reason for going out of town to shop and out of town people have every advantage in coming to Ashland to trade. Great assortments of merchandise such as you would expect to find only in the larger cities are carried by this store, whose buyers make semi-annual visits to the great Eastern markets and keep in close touch with styles and values and it is a conceded fact that this store offers its patrons merchandise at lower prices than same values and qualities can be purchased for the larger cities.
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