J. C. Penney–Chicago Store Building | |
Location: | 130 East Congress Street, Tucson, Arizona |
Coordinates: | 32.2217°N -110.9689°W |
Area: | 26, 400 ft.2[1] |
Built: | 1903 |
Architect: | Holmes, D.H. |
Architecture: | Italianate |
Added: | 2003-09-12 |
Refnum: | 03000907 |
The J. C. Penney–Chicago Store is a historic department store building in downtown Tucson, Arizona, United States. Built in 1903 for the Los Angeles Furniture Co, it housed J. C. Penney by July 25, 1942.[2] In 1957, after J. C. Penney moved to the west side of Stone Avenue just north of Pennington Street, Aaronson Brothers moved in.[3] The Chicago Store moved in after the El Paso-based department store closed in 1967.[4] This building had the last complete original vintage interior in Downtown Tucson with stamped tin ceilings and period woodwork until it was completely gutted in 2020–2022.