Stoddard’s opens.

Originally Dame, Stoddard and Kendall, it is located initially at the corner of Washington Street and Franklin Street. The oldest cutlery store in the U.S., it is purchased by cutlery salesman Bernard Marcovitz, a Hungarian immigrant in 1927 and assumes its current name in 1930. The company moves to 48 Temple Place in 1965 and subsequently opens branches in the Copley Place and Chestnut Hill malls. The Temple Place store closes in 2004 and is replaced on the site by a restaurant of the same name.