Miller Bros.Hardware Store, Miller Bros. & Keep Hardware Store
Life Span: 1864-1871
Location: 55 State
Architect: TBD
- Halpin’s Chicago City Directory for 1864
Miller A. R. & G. H., (Albion R. and George H. Miller,) hardware, 235 and 237 State
John C. W. Bailey’s Chicago City Directory for 1867
Miller A. R. & G. H., (Albion R. and George H. Miller,) hardware, 55 State
Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1870
Miller Brothers & Keep, (A. R. and G. H. Miller and W. G. Keep), hardware and cutlery, whol 55 State
Chicago Tribune, September 10, 1864
An Old Firm In a New Establishment.
The handsomest compliment that can be paid to the growth of our city trade, is to be derived from the evidences of the success of individual firms and enterprises, on the principle that soil is to be judged from its crops, and a tree by its fruits. Such instances and proofs in our vigorous city growth are numerous. One of these, and one we are especially glad to chronicle, is to be found in the new and elegant hardware store of the brothers A. R. & G. H. Miller, No. 55 State street. The store itself is in all its appointments one of the most complete and perfect in the city, being wide and roomy, fitted up with the eye to taste and convenience belongs to the thorough merchant, occupying the whole front of the new first class brick building just finished between Lake and Randolph streets, as above. The business Messrs. M. transfer to their new stand is one any house in their line in the Northwest may well envy, and has been built up by them from a moderate beginning in a small store on the corner of State and Jackson streets.
They had indeed year by year extended their former premises to meet the demands of their increasing business, until it had become one of the largest in their line in Chicago. By their new change of house they have opened one of the largest hardware stores in the city, relinquishing to a successor their stove and tin business. As importers and jobbers in builders’ hardware and cutlery, they are destined to fill from the outset a prominent place in that important department of our city trade. Their city patrons will be glad to know that their extended wholesale facilities will in so much only increase the inducements of their large city retail trade, which they will retain. We take pleasure in chronicling their success, which is well deserved. Their present establishment is one so complete in all its details that we shal1 have conferred a favor on all our readers, who may be inauced thereby to visit the Mesers. Miller.
Chicago Tribune, July 3, 1867
Wholesale Hardware and Cutlery.—Messrs. A. R. & G. H. Miller, the well-known wholesale dealers in hardware and cutlery at No. 55 State street, have formed a co-partnership with Mr. W. F. Keep, and will continue business under the firm name of Miller Bros. & Keep. at the old stand. With enlarged facilities, they will be able to deal with their patrons on even more favorable terms than of yore.
- Miller Bros. Hardware
55 State
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1869
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