T. A. Chapman Co.

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T. A. Chapman Co., commonly known as Chapman's was a department store based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The chain was founded by Timothy Appleton Chapman in 1857. He opened the chain's flagship store on Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee in 1872. The original Wisconsin Avenue location was destroyed by fire 1884, and rebuilt. In 1978, the company acquired Manchester's Department Stores in Madison, Wisconsin. The Chapman family retained ownership of the company until 1983, and eventually it had seven locations. The company filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 1987. At the time of bankruptcy, there were six locations: three in Milwaukee, two in Madison and one in Appleton.

[edit] Former Chapman's locations

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Milwaukee – Wisconsin Avenue location (former flagship, now demolished)
Milwaukee – Capitol Court Mall
Milwaukee – Bayshore Mall
Milwaukee – Mitchell Street
Brookfield – Brookfield Square location opened in metro Milwaukee's first enclosed shopping mall in the late sixties. I don't recall a Chapman's location on Mitchell St. The anchors on Mitchell St. were Schusters (later Gimbels-Schusters, The Grand, and Goldmann's).
Madison – The original Manchester's flagship at the corner of E. Miflin St. and N. Wisconsin Ave.
Madison – West Towne Mall, former Manchester's branch
Appleton – I question this location. There was a Gimbels branch in downtown Appleton that was later converted to Marshall Field's and then closed when a suburban Dayton's branch was opened by Field's new owner Dayton-Hudson Department Stores.