Hess Shoe Store

Defunct Maryland area shoe store

Hess Shoe StoreFormerly| N. Hess' Sons

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Company type| Private company
Industry| Retail
Founded| 1872 (1872)
Defunct| 1999 (1999)
Fate| Bankruptcy
Headquarters|

Baltimore, Maryland

United States

Area served

| Maryland
Products| Shoes

N. Hess' Sons was a Baltimore, Maryland area shoe store founded in 1872. Privately held, it was acquired from the founding family by a German company in the late 1970s. At its peak in 1989 it had 32 stores, shrinking to 23 stores in 1994 in a conscious effort to achieve economies of scale after a bankruptcy and reorganization. At its demise in 1999 it had 11 stores throughout the Baltimore region.

Its Edmondson Village store (Hess Monkey Town) adjoined a children's barber shop which featured live monkeys.

The 1948 building that housed its flagship store on York Rd. is part of the Hochschild, Kohn Belvedere and Hess Shoes Historic district.

## References

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* "After 127 years, Hess Shoes goes out of business", Baltimore Sun
* "Hess Shoes tries a bigger store for size", Baltimore Sun
* Footloose & Fancy A Personal History Of Hess Shoes (1972) by George B. Hess Sr
* Edmondson Village Shopping Center| Hunka Munka

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