The 19th Shawano Has History plaque was installed on the Chaimson’s Fair Store Building at 134 S. Main Street in Shawano. We want to thank Danny Chaimson for sponsoring this plaque. In 1903 Max Chaimson opened The Fair Store, a general store in a storefront on the east side of Main Street, giving Upham & Russell at the corner of Main and Division Streets direct competition.
The 19th Shawano Has History plaque was installed on the Chaimson’s Fair Store Building at 134 S. Main Street in Shawano. We want to thank Danny Chaimson for sponsoring this plaque. In 1903 Max Chaimson opened The Fair Store, a general store in a storefront on the east side of Main Street, giving Upham & Russell at the corner of Main and Division Streets direct competition.
Chaimson’s Fair Store Building
134 S. Main Street in Shawano
The 19th Shawano Has History plaque was installed on the Chaimson’s Fair Store Building at 134 S. Main Street in Shawano.
We want to thank Danny Chaimson for sponsoring this plaque.
In 1903 Max Chaimson opened The Fair Store, a general store in a storefront on the east side of Main Street, giving Upham & Russell at the corner of Main and Division Streets direct competition. Max Chaimson built a new building at 134 S. Main Street in 1907 and sold everything from groceries and clothes, to home furnishings. They even dealt in hides, pelts, and furs.
The two-story, three-bay Chaimson building is noted for its historic significance as the first home of one of Shawano’s longest-lived department stores. The building’s date of construction is carved in a stone set over the center second-story window. This building was the home of Chaimson’s Fair Store for many years before moving across the street to a larger building.