The closure is the latest drama on a stretch of East Market Street that’s been the focus of a recent and fierce civic debate ...

Usually the vast court of the John Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia is thronged with scuffling folk intent on rummaging through counters of merchandise in search of bargains. One night last week a ...

It's long been the home of the Wanamaker Organ, which retailer John Wanamaker purchased for the store in 1909. According to the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ, it took 13 freight cars to transport ...

The visionary retailer John Wanamaker unveiled the organ to Philadelphians in 1911. Forty years after he had opened his first clothing store, he installed the organ as a showpiece of his new ...

Macy’s workers were informed that the iconic location, which housed John Wanamaker’s flagship department store for much of the past 115 years, would be shuttered in March. “It has been more ...