Flint & Kent

Flint & Kent
Industry Retail
Fate Sold to The Sample
Founded 1832
Defunct 1956
Headquarters Buffalo, New York
Products Clothing

Flint & Kent was an upscale department store based in Buffalo, New York. It had its roots in a dry good store opened in 1832 by Benjamin Fitch at 288 Main Street in that city. It was named Flint & Kent in 1865. In 1897, it moved to its flagship store at 554 Main Street, to a building that was designed by noted Buffalo architect Edward Austin Kent, who would perish on the RMS Titanic. In 1954, the company was sold to Charles Jack Hahn, whose father owned Sattler's. The company was sold in 1956, to The Sample.

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