C. Crawford Hollidge was mainly a women's clothing store with an eye for style and well known customer service. The entire building on the corner of Tremont and Temple Place would grow to become a significant rival of RH Stears  that occupied the opposite corner.Like so many Boston stores of its time, it managed to make it into the 60's and expand into the suburbs.

 

The Boston location was still the main store when an early morning blaze destroyed the great building in February of 1967. The damage was total and the building needed to be demolished soon after. The other branches limped along and vanished soon after.