Wheaton Barnes & Noble closing
Posted January 01, 2010 10:00 pm
The Illinois city where Barnes & Noble can trace it's origins no longer is home to one of its bookstores.
The national bookseller closed its store in Wheaton this week.
Though the store had been in the community just 18 years, its history stretches back much further.
According to Wheaton author Mary Ann Phemister, Charles M. Barnes started a bookselling business from his home a short distance away from Wheaton College in 1873.
Barnes' son later went to New York City, where he founded the company's first bookstore in 1917 with his partner, G. Clifford Noble.
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