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Joslins
Company type	Department store
Industry	Retail
Founded	1873; 152 years ago in Denver, Colorado, United States
Founder	John Jay Joslin
Defunct	1998
Fate	Converted to Dillard's
Headquarters	Denver, Colorado
Products	Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics and housewares

Joslins was a chain of department stores that was based in Denver, Colorado, United States.

History

Joslins Department Store began as J. Joslins Dry Goods Store, founded by John Jay Joslin in 1873; it was a direct competitor to The Denver Dry Goods Company which commenced operations in 1888. The original Joslin Dry Goods Company Building is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and is currently a Courtyard by Marriott property.

Around 1910, Joslin sold the business to H.B. Claflin & Company, which collapsed in 1914.^[1] Two store chains were created from the bankruptcy: Associated Dry Goods and Mercantile Stores Company, Inc. As a nameplate of Mercantile Stores, Joslins became the first Denver-based department store to build branch locations in the 1940s, later expanding the chain with larger anchor stores in malls in the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1998, the Dillard's department store chain purchased Mercantile Stores, converting most of the then-existing Joslin's stores to Dillard's stores.^[2]^[3] One former Joslin's store in Colorado Springs and the recently-opened flagship store at Park Meadows in Lone Tree were sold by Dillard's to The May Department Stores Company, which converted the Colorado Springs store to a Foley's and the Park Meadows store to the Denver area's second Lord & Taylor store.^[4]

Locations

Location	Address	Opened	Closed	Disposition
Downtown Denver	934 16th Street, Denver	1873	1995	redeveloped into Courtyard by Marriott, 1996 building received National Historic Register designation, 1997
Greeley	825-827 Eighth St, Greeley	1944	1973	moved to 1015 9th Ave, 1963 replaced by Greeley Mall location, 1973 ^[5]
Englewood	3470 S Broadway, Englewood	1945	1954	Nielsen's Department Store acquired in 1945^[6] replaced by 3315 South Broadway location
Lakewood	7308 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood	1946	1957	replaced by JCRS Shopping Center location
Aurora	9620 E Colfax Ave, Aurora	1949
Merchants' Park Shopping Center	627 S Broadway, Denver	1952
Englewood	3315 S Broadway, Englewood	1954
Boulder	1919 14th St, Boulder	1956	1980	first three/four floors of Colorado Building remodeled into offices^[7]
Lakewood	JCRS Shopping Center, 6715 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood	1957	early 1970s	space redeveloped into Casa Bonita^[8]
Villa Italia	7200 W Alameda Ave, Lakewood	1966	2000	converted to a Dillard's store, 1998 redeveloped for Belmar
Pueblo	southeast corner of Main Street and W 4th Street, Pueblo	1970	1976	Crews-Beggs Dry Goods Co acquired in 1959, changed to Joslin's name in 1970 replaced by Pueblo Mall location, 1976
Cinderella City	Englewood	1968	1995	replaced by Southglenn Mall location, 1995
Buckingham Square Mall	1440 S Havana St, Aurora	1971	2005	converted to a Dillard's store, 1998 redeveloped for The Gardens on Havana
Greeley Mall	2050 Greeley Mall, Greeley	1973	2008	converted to a Dillard's store, 1998 closed, 2008
Pueblo Mall	3601 Dillon Dr, Pueblo	1976		converted to a Dillard's store, 1998
Westminster Mall	5433 W 88th Ave, Westminster	1977	2011	converted to a Dillard's store, 1998 closed, 2011
Southwest Plaza	8501 W Bowles Ave, Littleton	1983	2006	converted to a Dillard's store, 1998 converted to a Dick's Sporting Goods and Steve & Barry's, 2006
Frontier Mall	1400 Dell Range Blvd, Cheyenne, WY	1983	2021	converted to a Dillard's store, 1998 closed, 2021 location purchased by Appliance Factory & Mattress Kingdom, 2023^[9]
Chapel Hills Mall	1750 Briargate Blvd, Colorado Springs	1985	1998	location purchased by May and converted to Foley's, 1998 converted to a Macy's, 2006
Twin Peaks Mall	1250 S Hover St, Longmont	1985	c. 2008^[10]	converted to a Dillard's store, 1998 redeveloped for Village at the Peaks, 2014
Southglenn Mall	6911 S University Blvd, Centennial	1994	2006	converted to a Dillard's store, 1998 redeveloped for The Streets at SouthGlenn, 2006^[11]
Park Meadows	8425 Park Meadows Center Dr, Lone Tree	1997	1998	location purchased by May, 1998, and converted to Lord & Taylor, 1999

References

^ Rebchook, John (19 May 1998). "J.J. Joslin started store 125 years ago downtown". Rocky Mountain News. p. 4B.
^ Bunn, Dina (19 May 1998). "Curtain Falls on Joslins". Rocky Mountain News. p. 1B. The Little Rock, Ark., retailer announced Monday it is buying Mercantile for $3.14 billion in cash and assumed debt.Ten Joslins stores in the state and one in Cheyenne will close or be converted to Dillard's.
^ Dubroff, Henry (23 May 1998). "An unforgettable department store sale". Denver Business Journal. American City Business Journals.
^ Parker, Penny (4 Aug 1998). "Lord & Taylor coming to mall". Denver Post. p. C-1. The Joslins at Park Meadows is turning into a Lord & Taylor and the Joslins at Chapel Hills mall in Colorado Springs will become a Foley's, according to the terms of a deal announced Monday between Dillard's and May Department Stores Co.
^ Edgerton, Red (29 Jun 1973). "Joslins adds and expands merchandise in new store". Greeley Daily Tribune. p. 44.
^ "Downtown History Tour". City of Englewood / Englewood Historic Preservation Society. 8 Oct 2021.
^ "Joslin's exteriors: Photo 1". Boulder Historical Society/Museum of Boulder. . . . plans were soon announced that the Colorado Building would be remodeled into a financial and office building. According to a 31 October 1979 Boulder Daily Camera article, the Boulder Joslin's location was due to close 31 January 1980 because of difficulty finding a new location.
^ Lewis, Rosemary (2012). "Fortress Commerce: Jefferson County's Malls" (PDF). Historically Jeffco. Jefferson County Historical Commission. pp. 3–7. Joslin's moved out of JCRS in the late 1970s and its space became the Casa Bonita restaurant.
^ "Former Dillard's in Cheyenne Purchased by Appliance Factory & Mattress Kingdom". Cheyenne Post. 27 Feb 2023.
^ "Holiday shopping season will be 28th — and final — for Twin Peaks Mall". Longmont Times-Call. 7 Dec 2013.
^ Arellano, Kristi (1 Mar 2006). "Mall's closing buys a moment of nostalgia". Denver Post. p. C-01.