R. H. Macy and Company Store

The R. H. Macy and Company Store is the flagship of Macy's department stores, located on Herald Square in Manhattan, New York City. The building was the world's largest department store from 1924 until 2009, when the South Korean chain Shinsegae opened a store of nearly 5.5 million square feet (510,000 square meters) in Busan. As of 2011, the store has stood at the site for 110 years. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark in 1978. Macy's was founded by Rowland Hussey Macy, who between 1843 and 1855 opened four retail dry goods stores, including the original Macy's store in downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts, established in 1851 to serve the mill industry employees of the area....