The Liebman –
Loveman Family |
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New Jersey and
Cleveland Branches
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Southern Loveman
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Loveman Merchants - Nashville
fter Morris
Loveman
(1812-1887) and his
son David
(1838-1914) relocated to Nashville during the Civil War,
both established businesses there. Morris opened a
wholesale dry goods and notions house on Cedar Street, while David
set up a corset and hoop skirt manufacturing company at 60 North
College Street, just north of the City Square. It advertised
"Skirts made to order at the shortest notice. Dealers in Ladies
Furnishing Goods; also old skirts repaired, altered and shaped as
new. A full stock constantly on hand.” |
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1884 and
1880 bills of sale from D. Loveman & Co. Click to enlarge. |
Both
Morris’ and David’s businesses prospered. David’s, which became D.
Loveman & Company, expanded beyond hoop skirts, which eventually
became unfashionable, into a larger dry goods establishment. With
the addition of partners Samuel W. Berger and Henry Teitelbaum in
the 1890s, it became a department store and took the name Loveman,
Berger & Teitelbaum, and the sobriquet, “The Satisfactory Store.”
Loveman, Berger & Teitelbaum erected this building at Fifth and
Union Streets in downtown Nashville at the turn of the 20th
century. It was sold in 1961 and razed in 1966. Click to
enlarge.
Courtesy of the Nashville Public
Library, The Nashville Room |
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Loveman’s was regular advertiser in the business directory and
newspapers of the day. By 1870 the business was not only
manufacturing hoop skirts, but importing French corsets and dealing
in a full line of white goods, Irish linen, hosiery and human and
artificial hair. |
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The company prospered in the first half of the 20th century. In
1951, it opened a suburban location at Harding and White Bridge
Roads , which became its flagship store. The downtown store was
vacated in 1961, sold and torn down in 1966. One of Nashville's
greatest mercantile houses, it closed its doors in 1976.
Nashville Loveman's
Advertisement, The Tennesseean, June 2, 1946. Click to
enlarge. |
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