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The Movement Mortgage building is housed in what was once the
Angel Building
at 918 4th. Ave., Huntington. Huntington developer Shane Radcliff restored the
building facade as part of a 2014 renovation.
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HUNTINGTON -- The M.D. Angel Co. - generally known as
Angel's - was long a favorite with downtown
Huntington shoppers. The store was located at 918 4th Ave. in a building
that originally
was built in 1910 to house the Johnson Mortuary.
In 1929, Max D. Angel purchased the building and opened a
men's clothing store.
The building's original facade was plain red brick, but Angel wanted something
different. He had the storefront decorated with black Belgian marble and
placed elaborately rendered color coats of arms beneath each window
Angel's prospered over the years, eventually adding boys and
women's clothing
to its offerings. In 1961, The Union Company, a Columbus, Ohio,
department store, purchased it as a branch location.
In an interview, Don Levy, the grandson of store founder S. M.
Levy, explained that
the store was called "The Union" because it was started in Chicago
during the
Civil War and "the Union was North and was on everyone's tongue at
the time." The Union opened in Columbus in 1894. At one time it
operated six stores in central Ohio, and then began adding
stores elsewhere, including Huntington.
The Union closed its Huntington store in 1963, saying it
wanted to concentrate on its
central Ohio locations. In the subsequent years the 4th Avenue building
saw only
a series of short-term tenants and was much altered from its original
appearance.
In 2014, Huntington developer Shane Radcliff purchased the
former Angel's building,
refurbishing its first floor retail space, converting the upper floors
into apartments
- and restoring the distinctive facade that M.D. Angel installed on his clothing
store.
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Note: This Article and picture appeared in the Herald-Dispatch Newspaper on Jan. 03, 2017.
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