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The
Hecht
Company's main downtown store was located here at the
southeast corner of 7th and F Streets, where Alexander and Moses Hecht,
the sons of a German-Jewish merchant family from Baltimore, first opened
a shop on March 20, 1896 at 515 Seventh Street.
The
current building--which has been now completely rebuilt and restored
as mixed-use commercial and residential building-opened to great fanfare
in November 1925. Overhead, an over-sized four-sided clock served--and
now serves again--as a convenient landmark meeting-place for people
and shoppers. The Hecht Company, now part of The May Department Stores
Company, is the only large department store still operating in downtown
DC, with a large, new store further west at 1201 G Street N.W.
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Clock at the corner of 7th and F Streets.
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Detail from the Hecht Company's façade.
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