The firm was purchased and renamed to The McNamara Dry Goods Company in 1886 at 70 cents on the dollar.

[1] The beginnings of the company can be traced back to 1876 when they had both worked as clerks at another dry goods store in Denver.

A description on one postcard from 1916 read, "The Largest Store in the Central West, 400 Feet long-Seven Acres Floor Area, 1,200 Employees, A $2,500,000 Stock, 15th to 16th on California Street Denver Colorado."

Nine of the 12 locations were shut down and sold off and the remaining three units were converted to May-Daniels & Fisher stores in 1987.

There were four additional closed units in Greeley, Billings and Lakeside and a short-lived free standing cosmetics store in Beau Monde (Denver Tech Center).