[1] The original Howard Street locations were razed in 1888 and replaced by the five-story Hutzler Brothers Palace Building, designed by the architectural firm of Baldwin & Pennington.

[5] Its exterior features included Nova Scotia gray stone, carved with Arabesque heads and foliage, and large display windows.

[1] When Hutzler's opened its Colonial Tea Room on the fourth floor of the Palace building in 1917, more than one thousand people dined there.

This policy replaced the process of higgling or haggling to negotiate prices determined by the bargaining skill of individual customers.

One-pricing for basic commodities was practiced before the Civil War,[8] but Hutzler's may have been the first retailer to apply the policy to such a broad range of merchandise, including every item in the store.

[2] Designed for customers using automobiles, rather than pedestrian traffic, the Towson Hutzler's lacked the showcase windows of the downtown store.

[11] In response to declining business in the 1980s, Hutzler's hired Angelo Arena from Marshall Field's in 1983 to take charge of the company and reverse the downward trend.

By the time Arena arrived in 1983, the Hutzler's Palace store had contracted to 95,000 square feet (8,800 m2) of retail floor space.

[2] The move to the Atrium was part of a five-year plan, announced by Arena in August 1984, to buy four Hochshild Kohn's locations and to expand Hutzler's from eight to 15 stores in the Baltimore area.