280 Broadway

280 Broadway, also known as the Marble Palace, the A.T. Stewart Company Store or The Sun Building, on the northeast corner of Chambers Street in Manhattan, New York City is the site of America's first department store. It later housed the New York Sun newspaper and is now used for city municipal offices. Alexander Turney Stewart had opened his mercantile business across the street, but when it started to prosper, had "The Marble Palace" built on the site of Washington Hall, the former headquarters of the Federalist Party. Stewart's department store featured a number of marketing innovations designed to increase the volume of turnover and keep up with the increasing capacity of industrial manufacturing. He was among the first to set...