Montgomery Wards opened its Bismarck store inside the Lahr Motor Building at the corner of Broadway Avenue & 4th Street in 1928. Expanding in 1935, Wards remained at this location until establishing itself as an anchor at Kirkwood Mall in 1971. The Bismarck store closed in 1998, and its former space at Kirkwood is now home to I. Keating Furniture World.
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