Shoppers’ World opens in Framingham.

Architect: Morris Ketchum Jr.. It is located on Route 9 near the border with Natick. The first suburban shopping mall in the Northeast and second in the U.S., it contains 44 stores, including a Jordan Marsh Department Store, housed under one of the largest domes in the world built up to that time. Its development, along with that of the North Shore Mall (1958), South Shore Plaza (1961), Burlington Mall (1968), Danvers (the Liberty Tree Mall, in 1972), and Chestnut Hill (1974), signals the continued loss of population by Boston and the city’s economic decline and suburbs’ economic growth. Shoppers World is demolished in 1994.