Built in 1910, this two-story building was home for 73 years to a dress shop that was a downtown Raleigh landmark. Originally a jewelry store, the building was purchased by the Goodman’s in 1933 during the Great Depression and converted into Goodman’s Ladies Shop. Daisy Harris, who started as a maid to the store’s original owners and later became a top-selling clerk at the store, bought the store from her first employer’s daughter in 1989 and renamed it The Ladies’ Dress Shop. Because the store was a block from Fayetteville Street, when it was the city’s retail center, the store was known as “the little shop around the corner.”

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