National Historic Landmark - Great Atlantic And Pacific Tea Company Warehouse

From its beginnings in 1859 as a leather and tea importing business in New York to its position as the nation's largest retailer by the mid-20th century, A&P outstandingly symbolizes every major phase of chain-store history in America.

The A&P Warehouse is a little-altered, nine story, reinforced concrete structure that between about 1900 and 1929 formed part of a manufacturing and distribution center for the New York-New Jersey-Long Island area.

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Information courtesy of the National Park Service.