Flint & Kent
Flint & Kent was an upscale department store based in Buffalo, New York.
History
It had its roots in a dry good store that opened in 1832 by Benjamin Fitch at 288 Main Street, Buffalo. In 1836, the store was called Fitch, Marvin & Co., then Fitch & Marvin — the second name reflecting Fitch's partner, Eurotas MarvinOn February 17, 1865, the owners — Ethan Howe Howard, Joshua Mortimer Whitcomb, and William Bradford Flint, operating as co-partnership under the name Howard, Whitcomb & Co. — dissolved their partnership and sold their interest to a newly formed co-partnership of William Bradford Flint, Henry Mellen Kent, and R.P. Stone, operating as a co-partnership under the name Flint, Kent & Stone. On October 25, 1866, Stone sold his interest to Henry Cogswell Howard and the firm henceforth was known as Flint, Kent & Howard. The eventually became known as Flint & Kent.
In 1856 William Bradford Flint joined the company, followed by Henry Mellen Kent in 1865, the store became known as Flint, Kent & Stone – and eventually just Flint & Kent. In 1897, Flint & Kent moved its flagship store from 554 Main Street to a building that was designed by Edward Austin Kent, Henry Kent's son and noted Buffalo architect who died in 1912 as a passenger aboard the RMS Titanic''.