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Fashion history resurfaces downtown - briefly


Renovations at a nearly century old building reveal one of its early tenants.
A sign from the past, visible earlier this week.
“I was shocked.” That’s how Jim Nash, with the Farnsworth-Hill property management company, describes his reaction when workers rehabbing the 708 Church Street building earlier this week uncovered a sign from years gone by.
“Milburns,” the sign said, above a window and some plywood window coverings.
That 708 Church storefront most recently housed Market Fresh Books. It’s being fixed up as the new home for American Mattress, currently on Davis Street. But what the heck was Milburns?
Well, according to the Evanston History Center, Milburns was a women’s sportswear store from 1937 to 1949. Nash says when Milburns went out of business, it was replaced by another women’s clothing store, Brooks Fashions. ....

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